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for the Government to give a full and final statement on a number of issues, issues that are currently being researched. As Mr Moore well knows from his trips to Sydney to see the Chief Censor, there are a range of issues affecting publications themselves - for example, the video Blood Feast and the magazine Toxic Horror with which Mr Moore may well be familiar, having taken an interest in the subject. The fact is that there are some considerable questions as to whether some of these videos are available in the ACT and there is a question about their publication and distribution from the United States. There are also a number of issues of classification which the Government needs to research and deal with, with the Chief Censor. To sum it up in a nutshell, Mr Speaker, we are not ready for Mr Moore's initiative and we believe that it would be responsible of the Assembly to defer that debate.
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order. Can I take it that Mr Collaery has moved an adjournment motion on the debate?
Mr Collaery: No.
MR MOORE (10.57): Since no adjournment has been moved, I would like to exercise my right of reply on the in-principle stage of my own Bill. Mr Collaery is the only member who has spoken on this Bill and, as usual, when he has got nothing to go by, he mounts a personal attack. He has made a series of points about fluoride. I have already pointed out to the Assembly that members could have checked with Mr Berry at the time as to my opinion; they could have checked on a meeting I had on that particular issue with the delegates of the AMA and so forth. It was quite clear that I wanted the issue to go to a committee, but Mr Collaery and other Rally members were so gungho to get you, Mr Speaker, on side - and I presume they had not discussed it with you because they usually do not discuss things with people - in order to form a government that they also went gungho into the fluoride issue instead of taking it to a committee. If they want to present things that way, then let them do so. I see Mr Collaery there laughing at that objection, but I would suggest that a much more reliable source of facts would be the representatives of the AMA rather than Mr Collaery who, as we know, chops and changes and has a great deal of difficulty distinguishing between fantasy and reality.
Had Mr Collaery read the amendment that I am making to my own Bill, he would know that what he has been talking about today is absolutely irrelevant. Most of his speech was totally irrelevant, the reason being that I made an announcement yesterday on ABC radio. I followed that up by distributing a copy of an amendment to my own Bill, which I now seek to move. Do I need to seek leave to move that amendment, which has been tabled?
MR SPEAKER: I believe your timing is incorrect. This would come up during the detail stage.
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