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satisfied that that is what has happened. When we are satisfied that that is what has happened - that he has wilfully and deliberately misled this Assembly - then - - -
Mr Kaine: Who is "we"? You and the Labor Party?
MR MOORE: The Chief Minister asks "Who is 'we'?". The "we" should be every single member of this Assembly, including Mr Kaine, who should be horrified by the fact that somebody is prepared wilfully to lie to this Assembly - - -
A member: That is a point of order!
MR MOORE: I withdraw the word "lie", Mr Speaker. The point is that if somebody wilfully and deliberately misleads then, in effect, he is using a lie. A lie is deceit. That is what I am referring to.
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, I ask that Mr Moore withdraw that imputation that I told a lie when tabling that document.
MR MOORE: But that is exactly what this censure motion is about - he has been censured for telling a lie.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I will take advice on that. Your objection is overruled, Mr Collaery. The charge against you is that you "misled" and an interpretation of that word is, of course, "lie", and therefore the charge is against you. Mr Moore is quite correct in his interpretation. He may proceed, provided his language is parliamentary.
MR MOORE: Thank you, Mr Speaker, I shall be very careful to keep to parliamentary language when talking about this type of lying. I think that I have assisted in making the point that the Assembly generally has a responsibility and this Government also has a responsibility. If one of its members tells a lie to or misleads this Assembly, and that person does not have enough guts to step down himself, then other members of the Government should have the courage to vote in favour of this censure motion and remove him from that office. He brings down not only the quality of the Government but also the reputation of this Assembly along with that of those people about whom I have spoken before.
MR JENSEN (3.55): Once again, we see on the other side of the chamber a shameful waste of the Assembly's time this afternoon. The sorts of actions we have seen from one of the members opposite - I will not do him the service of naming him - should worry us. He was prepared to refer to my own wife, which was rather nasty in the extreme. It is the sort of action that leads us to worry about the nature of the person involved. This is incredible and it is of some concern to me. It is a shameful waste of the Assembly's time this afternoon, and I am sure that an amendment that I will move shortly will clearly show where the truly reprehensible behaviour on the part of members of this Assembly has occurred.
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