Page 816 - Week 03 - Thursday, 22 March 1990
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Mr Moore: But you want Whalan out!
MR KAINE: I am talking about the Leader of the Opposition. Don't you listen? You want to clean out your ears.
On the two matters that have taken up well over half the debating time of this Assembly today, Labor Party members got done like the bunch of cream puffs that they are. They got done like a dinner. They did not get one single point on the board. Let us get the record really on the books. Of course, the final point concerns the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, who thought he was going to take the Attorney-General down today. Look what happened to him, because of his absolute and total disrespect for this house and for its Speaker. He is out. He belongs in the sin bin and I hope he stays there for his full three hours. That is the measure of the success of the Labor Party today. I think the record speaks for itself and for Mr Berry to get up and assert that somehow the Labor Party has won the day was as laughable as the debate in which its members engaged in all day.
MR MOORE (7.01): When I read through the documents that were tabled by Mr Collaery at the end of his speech I realised that those documents have simply verified what the censure motion was all about. Once again, he has tabled a set of documents that are totally irrelevant. Most of them are from 1988, before any of us were here, and none of them had to do with Northbourne Flats or Mrs Grassby. It should remain on the paper and in Hansard that that is the case. The very thing for which the Opposition attempted to censure him and on which the Government just used its numbers to block the attempt, has once again been clarified. That is the calibre of the man; that is what we are talking about; that is why - - -
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, standing order 51. This gentleman is seeking to renew the debate. Standing order 51 says:
A member may not allude to any debate or proceedings of the same calendar year unless such allusion is relevant to the matter under discussion.
This is the adjournment debate, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Thank you, Mr Collaery, do not debate the issue. Mr Moore, you are sailing close to the wind on your discussions; you are alluding to previous debate this day and therefore that is out of order.
MR MOORE: The censure motion that we were talking about concerned the tabling of papers by Mr Collaery. Then Mr Kaine stood up and talked about there being no victory for Labor. Well, as an observer from the outside who has nothing gain or lose either way, I - - -
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