Page 604 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 21 March 1990
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MR SPEAKER: I take your point, Mr Jensen. The term "honourable member" can be used, or the normal prefix before - - -
Mr Moore: But we are not entitled to the term "honourable" at all.
MR SPEAKER: We certainly are not, but I am trying to infer there that you should use the accepted title or prefix.
MR MOORE: I am certainly not going to use the term "honourable" with Mr Collaery. There is no way he could be interpreted as being honourable in any way.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
Mr Collaery: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: I take that point of order. Withdraw that comment, Mr Moore.
MR MOORE: Withdraw which one, Mr Speaker? The "honourable"?
MR SPEAKER: The imputation that Mr Collaery is not an honourable man.
MR MOORE: If there are any imputations, Mr Speaker, I gladly withdraw them. It is quite clear from the green book, which Mr Collaery always has with him, that the term "honourable" is not appropriately used by members of this Assembly. At the meeting of State Attorneys-General, when Mr Collaery called them hypocrites, of course he was in one of his normal psychological projectionist states! That is exactly the situation. Now, in the same way, he is saying, "Don't vote for this Bill now, vote for it later, because then we'll be able to take credit for it instead of Mr Moore". I do not really care whether members vote for it now or later. The reason I introduced it was to try to give Mr Collaery a compromise way out so that we do not have to have this draconian way - - -
Mr Collaery: Oh! He wanted to help me.
MR MOORE: Because he is simply not to be trusted - I withdraw that imputation, Mr Speaker. The point that I am trying to make is that the logical thing to do now is to go straight with this Bill, pass it and make Mr Stevenson's Bill redundant. Then we will have achieved a logical, rational, middle ground on this issue and, with the amendment that I foreshadow, the power is still with Mr Collaery to deal with R-rated movies as he sees fit because it becomes a regulation and the regulation is entirely in his hands.
Mr Jensen: It is in the hands of the Assembly.
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