Page 1712 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 May 1990
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MR MOORE: What is your point of order? Sit down if you do not know your point of order.
Mr Duby: He is maligning me.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I would ask you to withdraw that, please, Mr Moore. That charge is concluded. There is an imputation.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, there are two offences of which Mr Duby has been found guilty. The first one is a drink-driving offence, and that carried exactly what I said. It is combined with this second offence in a very short period which the magistrate has taken into account. So the first time it was you, Mr Duby. Do not weasel out of it. You are a hypocrite, and you know it.
Mr Duby: You're a liar.
MR MOORE: The point is that this Chief Minister does not have the guts to get rid of you because you are just a number, and that is all there is to it.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Duby, would you please withdraw the comment. You called Mr Moore a liar. I do not believe that is appropriate language.
Mr Duby: I withdraw it.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Mr Moore, please proceed.
MR MOORE: On that matter, I withdraw any consideration that the second part of Mr Duby's offence included driving; apparently it did not. To summarise the situation, Mr Duby is clearly in breach of the law and has clearly been found guilty of criminal conduct. It is only appropriate that, if this Assembly is to retain any credibility at all, which is pretty debatable anyway, and if Mr Duby is not prepared to resign - I imagine he has a similar attitude to that of Richard Farmer at the weekend - then the responsibility rests fairly and squarely on the Chief Minister or his Cabinet colleagues who should have the guts to remove Mr Duby.
It is quite simple: it is appropriate that he be removed. There is no point in trying to cross this airy-fairy area between fantasy and reality, as Mr Collaery so often does, and trying to explain his way out of it. The reality is that his credibility has been doubted; the Alliance Government's credibility is at risk; the Assembly's credibility is at risk; and the responsible thing for the Chief Minister now to do is to call for Mr Duby's resignation. The appropriate thing for the Chief Minister to do is to set the same sorts of criteria as he did when he asked Mrs Nolan for her resignation.
Mr Kaine: I did not. That is an outright lie, Mr Speaker. I would like it withdrawn.
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