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of the force. At one time I was transferred when there was someone else at the station that would have loved to go to where I was being transferred. Indeed, I had not been asked and nor had he. Luckily, we were able to arrange a swap.
Mr Jensen: They do it in the services all the time, Dennis.
MR STEVENSON: Yes, that is right. I suggest that I should be discharged from those activities. I would welcome the opportunity to serve with Mr Wood and Mr Stefaniak. I am sure it would be a delightful time and most beneficial. However, there are other things I feel - - -
Mrs Nolan: What about Dr Kinloch?
Mr Moore: He is on it as well.
MR STEVENSON: Indeed, I did not know that. It would be an extra pleasure to be with someone with the experience in cultural activities that Dr Kinloch has, but perhaps not this time. I believe Mr Moore is going to move a motion or an amendment that he be allowed on to the committee. I think logic would have it that as he was a member of the committee - and I see someone shaking their head - he should be allowed to serve. Once again, I make the point of politics as against what would make sense. If Mr Moore feels he has something to contribute to that committee - he has already been on it; it is a select committee - then he well should be allowed to do so.
MR MOORE (4.14): Mr Deputy Speaker, I move the following amendment:
That after the word "Facilities", add "and that Mr Moore be appointed to the Committee".
Mr Stevenson has already explained that he was invited on to the committee without consultation and I was invited off the committee without consultation. That is correct. What I am now proposing is the same logic that Mr Stevenson has used, namely that I be taken back on to that committee. I certainly consider it to be an area of interest of mine. I have a background in arts councils, not just in Canberra but on several occasions in South Australia in particular. I believe that I have a special contribution to make to this committee and I would appreciate the support of the members of the Assembly in including me on the committee.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (4.16): Mr Speaker, I have to say that I support Mr Stevenson's motion; if he does not wish to be on the committee, so be it. That is his prerogative. I do not support Mr Moore's amendment to put himself on it. It seems to have been forgotten in all this debate that there are standing orders - to which we all agreed, unanimously, as I recall - which require certain things to happen in
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