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unpalatable. Mr Moore then went through the charade of resigning from the Residents Rally to which he had hitched his independent flag at the beginning and then said that the report flew in the face of Rally policy and was a sellout on sound environmental principles. Of course, I had to quietly wear that between the shoulder blades. It gives me great pleasure to stand today and to hear Mr Moore endorse not only the comments of the committee but mine in the additional comments. How is that for a balanced outlook.
Mr Moore: I did not endorse anything. I just quoted them.
MR COLLAERY: Now, Mr Speaker, if I may proceed.
Mr Moore: Are you endorsing my letter that you read out?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, order!
MR COLLAERY: There are genuine people in this town interested in the environment. I would like to read from the evidence given by Mr Tony Fleming to our select committee when he said this on 14 September 1989. He said:
I have no objection to the proposal for the redevelopment, in terms of the quality of the building and the fact that it would fit in with a city environment. It relates to the numbers of people - most of the problems relate to the numbers of people coming into town. So, certainly, if you decentralise that employment base and get some of those people out of the town, well, then, yes, you, once again, have scope for further development ...
Mr Speaker, I do not know why we are standing on an MPI. Mr Moore purports to come from the Reid area and purports to have a base. There are urgent issues to be addressed in his own area. There are concerns for the ageing. There are issues that go beyond mere grandstanding that this member could address himself to in the time he has got left in government. The motion itself is plainly absurd. The proposal to use the 1938 Enquiry Act - an anachronistic piece of legislation - to put this matter before a single judge is certainly the most extraordinary proposition I have ever heard of.
Mr Moore: You did not even read it. I said, "judge" or "a board". You do not even understand the Act. You could at least have read it.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore.
MR COLLAERY: The further suggestions Mr Moore made that there should be a moratorium - that sort of emotive word that is probably designed to appeal to journalists - and that there should be a full environmental, social and economic inquiry flies in the face of the learning
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