Page 2621 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 8 August 1990
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Mr Collaery: When are you going to pay your bill to get elected on our back?
MR MOORE: Take me to court, Bernard. Take me to court. You like courts; take me to court and we will see who really owes who money. I would like to take you back to when we stood around and we sat around in your place and said "What do we have in common?". It was long before Mr Jensen was even anywhere near the Residents Rally. "What do we have in common?".
Mr Jensen: That is wrong, Michael.
MR MOORE: It was long before you were around.
Mr Jensen: That is wrong. I attended a meeting of the Residents Rally at the Tuggeranong Community Council, if you recall.
MR MOORE: At that point David Read was chairman of the Tuggeranong Community Council and he was not there. We decided the most important thing we had in common was about consultation.
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Acting Speaker; this debate is about education. This man has spoken several times on the subject already this week. He has taken my place in the debate. As Rally leader he has precluded me from speaking on this matter of public importance and now he is giving us a rendition from the couch again.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: The point of order is relevance, which I do accept. We are talking about education, not trees and Brockman Street.
MR MOORE: Not at all, Mr Acting Speaker, we are talking about the consultation process. I am going back to the consultation process and I am talking about how these people have a commitment to consultation and what that consultation was about.
Their commitment to consultation was established at a discussion at Mr Collaery's house when the Residents Rally as a lobby group first formed. The only thing that we all had in common at that stage was that we had been ignored by the Labor Party, in particular, which was in power in the Federal Government, and by the bureaucrats, who were at that stage basically running the ACT. We sought to have a reasonable process of consultation. That reasonable process of consultation is and was defined again and again and we understood what it means. It is not a process by which you say to people, "We are going to do something, how would you like it done?". That is not consultation at all. "And you can make a decision".
Mr Collaery: What do you think it is?
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