Page 1710 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 May 1990
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not, as Mr Collaery attempted to describe, some minor offence. He had to go back to 1957, when the community had accepted different drink-driving legislation and had very different attitudes to drink-driving, to try to justify his weak and pathetic attempt at a defence of his position and that of his Government rather than his notion of Mr Duby.
Mr Collaery talked about a moral perspective as opposed to a criminal perspective, and I think that notion of a moral perspective must be taken in there. The morals have to do not with Mr Duby but with how this Assembly is perceived, and they have to do with turning around - - -
Mr Collaery: They have to do with paying your debts, too. Have you paid your debt to the Rally yet?
MR MOORE: I missed the interjection. Do you think we should ask him to repeat it?
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Moore.
MR MOORE: So when we talk about moral perspective - - -
Mr Collaery: He talks about morals! Look at him, the great user.
MR MOORE: You will not get any money out of me, Mr Collaery. Take me to court if you want to. Take me to court; we will sort it out there.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, please proceed.
MR MOORE: If Mr Collaery wants to take me to court, he can. I could stand up and defend myself against him and win without any trouble at all.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Relevancy, Mr Moore.
MR MOORE: The Chief Minister must be very embarrassed when he hears Mr Collaery talking about practising lawyers because he is not a practising accountant, and that is reflected in his budget statements, his Priorities Review Board and all those sorts of things. How do you feel about being a non-practising accountant, Chief Minister?
Mr Kaine: I was a practising accountant for years, mate, before you were born.
MR MOORE: Well, you have not been for a long time; that is pretty obvious. You asked us about Senator Tate. I am happy to call for his resignation. He should have resigned. It was totally inappropriate. I have no hassles about it at all.
Mr Kaine: Why didn't you?
MR MOORE: Because it is not a position of this Assembly. If I were in that Parliament House, I would be happy to
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