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time to work out where to put that dollar and how to spend it. This is the major failure that gives the lack of credibility to this Alliance Government, because all the other areas of lack of credibility fit in as subservient to this.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to stand here today and move this amendment to Mr Stevenson's motion and so do away with further debate on the X-rated video industry, because that is a non-issue. It has been done. I am pleased to see that Mr Collaery has signed the document and has moved on beyond that. This gives us an opportunity to deal with the real issues and it gives us an opportunity to say where we stand. I turn particularly to members of the Alliance Government and ask that when they look at this they think about all the people who have approached them on these issues of planning, health, and education. They must ask themselves whether they really feel that they are providing the best services for the people of Canberra.
Can they look back and say what are their social goals? Have they genuinely set their social goals? Do they know where they are going, or are they setting them all not only by the dollar but also by the advice that they are getting, for example, from the Priorities Review Board? That review was carried out by a group of people who are clearly interested in dollar issues long before social goals. If the priorities are wrong, the credibility goes down. These are the issues that are most important and these are the issues on which this Government, represented by its Chief Minister, lacks credibility; on which this Government, represented by its Chief Minister, lacks integrity; and on which this Government, represented by its Chief Minister, deserves to have a motion of no confidence carried against it.
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services) (12.01): Mr Deputy Speaker, like my colleagues Mr Collaery and Mr Humphries - - -
Mr Stevenson: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker; do we have an amendment to a motion? If so, are we speaking to the amendment or are we speaking to the no-confidence motion?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: We have an amendment to your no-confidence motion. Speakers after Mr Moore will speak to both the amendment and your substantive motion.
MR DUBY: As I said, like my colleagues Mr Collaery and Mr Humphries, I think that the waste of time that this Assembly has had to put up with in dealing with this motion today is far more indicative of a lack of credibility and a lack of integrity on behalf of Mr Stevenson than anything that the Chief Minister may or may not have done.
Let me say from the outset that I totally reject the concept that the Chief Minister lacks integrity, or
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