Page 1492 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 2 May 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Chief Minister. Mr Moore, you can debate the issue of 242(b) but not the motion or actions that were carried out in the committee room. That is what you seem to be doing now.
MR MOORE: All right, Mr Speaker. Dr Kinloch said that there was no substantive motion; I am saying that there was a substantive motion, which I am not discussing. I am discussing the point that Dr Kinloch raised. I am saying that that was absolutely incorrect, that in fact there was a motion. The motion that I have now in front of me and that is now tabled is largely identical to the motion that was carried by that committee.
That is something for which Dr Kinloch needs to be taken to task. His Government should realise that his blatant disregard for what happens in the committees needs to be dealt with by this Assembly. If we are going to have the presiding member of a committee totally disregard a motion carried by a committee, then - - -
Mr Collaery: You should bring it up under standing order 71 if you have a complaint, Michael.
MR MOORE: I will withdraw that, Mr Speaker. We must see what this Assembly is about and what its committees are about.
MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (11.02): I would like it to be on the record that no member of the Government has sought to enter the debate at this stage, and I can understand that all too well because nothing illustrates more clearly than does this motion the total disarray in the ranks opposite.
Mr Speaker, as I said in the debate yesterday, I believe the decision that has been taken by the Alliance Government here is stupid, arrogant and inconsistent. It demonstrates no coherent policy whatsoever on the part of this Government in relation to either the treatment of waste or the environment. I would like to look in particular at the actions and statements of three members of the Government because I think that these demonstrate their total ineptitude to deal with this matter.
Mr Duby sought to spring this decision upon the people of Canberra. There was absolutely no notice given. There was absolutely no consultation and his behaviour has been strange indeed. The whole decision was brought about by subterfuge. He has been caught out and he now seeks to justify his position purely on financial grounds - financial grounds which he has failed to prove. He has also sought to justify his position by making empty promises that at some future time the people in the area might have an equivalent recycling facility. He has given no commitment on that subject. It is purely pie in the sky at the moment and it is absolutely obvious that no-one believes him.
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