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reason he should be censured. I intend to name some of the people I know of whom Mr Collaery has attempted to character-assassinate with innuendo and snide remarks - no, worse than snide remarks. He has various methods of character assassination. The first person I intend to name is Trevor Kaine. Then there is Robyn Nolan - I have heard him speak about both of those. You have all heard him on - - -
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, I refer to standing order 55.
MR SPEAKER: I would ask you to address the debate before the house, Mr Moore, not go back into history.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, as part of the debate it is important to establish the fact that it is the standard procedure of Mr Collaery to use these character assassination techniques. His standard procedure is innuendo, connotation and character assassination. I draw attention to the people who have been named before by him in this Assembly - Mr Whalan, Mrs Grassby, Geoff Da Deppo and Tony Hedley. Also, I have heard him personally on Rosemary Follett; and in the Residents Rally, on Marion Le, my wife, my sister - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order, order! Mr Moore, I would ask you to withdraw those comments. I did direct you to address the question before the house, and if you read the motion you will find that your comments have nothing to do with it.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, what I am referring to is the tabling of correspondence in this Assembly which wilfully and deliberately misleads this Assembly. What Mr Collaery is doing is using his standard tactic of deliberately tabling a totally irrelevant letter in order to ruin the character of somebody. It is his standard character-ruining technique. I could go on to Mr Justice Kelly, Hector Kinloch and many other people.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, I ask you again to desist from that form of debate.
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, I ask that that reflection on the judiciary be withdrawn in an unqualified sense.
MR MOORE: I happily withdraw any suggestion of any reflection whatsoever on the judiciary, for whom I have the greatest respect. But I certainly do not withdraw the suggestion of any such ramifications in relation to Mr Collaery because that is what this is about - it is about innuendo and that type of conduct. I shall not name anybody else, even though there are people sitting somewhere around this Assembly who fit into that category.
What we have is a censure motion which claims that this man wilfully and deliberately misled the Assembly. I am
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