Page 775 - Week 03 - Thursday, 22 March 1990
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Mr Jensen: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; standing order 55 - Mr Moore is clearly reflecting personally on your ruling. He is making a personal reflection on your ability, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for that observation, Mr Jensen. Your objection is upheld. Please debate the issue before the house. I will ask you to give me lessons on English later, Mr Moore, thank you. Please proceed.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, it is critical to this censure motion that it is unacceptable as part of it. It is critical to the workings of this house that we work by the standing orders. It is critical to this house that you be seen to be independent. We saw a series of questions at question time, not coming from myself, I might add - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Moore. Please get to the discussion before the house. You are now diverting into question time.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, this motion was to censure the Deputy Chief Minister. This amendment has nothing to do with the censure of the Deputy Chief Minister and I would ask you to reconsider the standing order. I will raise it now as a point of order in the middle of my speech. On my feet, I raise the point of order that this amendment has no relevance whatsoever, Mr Speaker. If you are to retain the respect of this house you must reconsider this particular matter. That is the point I am trying to raise as strongly as I possibly can without disrespect to the Chair. I am asking you to reconsider it because this is not relevant and it is not acceptable and it has nothing to do with parliamentary practice that may have been referred to before. That is why I am bringing that point, Mr Speaker.
I have made the points that I wish to make about the reasons for censuring the Deputy Chief Minister. The tactic used by this Government when they are cornered, when they realise something is wrong, has always been a tactic of Mr Collaery's and he has got his colleagues working on the same tactic - if you find that you have made a mistake and you are cornered, you attack. All we have got here is an attack on other people whereas what he should face is the fact that he tabled a document that was totally irrelevant.
It had nothing to do with it. It had nothing to do with the situation and he used that as a method to mislead the house to lie. That is what this is about. We have somebody here who is lying to the house and that is what the censure is about. It is about lying to the house, not lying to anywhere else, not misrepresenting - lying to the house. That is what we are speaking about.
Mr Jensen: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am sorry to interrupt, but I would suggest that Mr Moore is not dealing with the amendment. He is dealing with the motion again.
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