Page 3203 - Week 11 - Thursday, 13 September 1990
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South Wales model - and I see that as being better than going to the extreme that Mr Collaery had wanted and put forward.
Mr Collaery: Well, what are you saying: yes or no?
MR MOORE: I have already said it, Mr Collaery. It seems to me entirely unnecessary that we have a body of that nature.
MR BERRY (11.04): I rise to speak in this debate; but, firstly, Mr Speaker, with your leave, I would like to welcome representatives from Higgins Primary School who, of course, have been maintaining a vigil in this Assembly because of the Government's savage attack on the school system in the ACT. They are very welcome and I hope they keep up the pressure on these people opposite.
Mr Speaker, the reason I rise is to pursue that which I pursued by way of interjection earlier, and that was an apology from Mr Collaery to all of those whose character this person sought to assassinate, under privilege, for his own personal advantage. It has been much said that Mr Collaery lives a conspiracy-enriched life and I think that an apology is required. But an apology is also required to those people whom Mr Collaery used in his Pied Piper stunt in the lead-up to the last elections. That stunt, of course, misled people into believing that the party which Mr Residents Rally himself headed would deliver something special to the people of the ACT, not only in relation to the alleged conspiracies that allegedly abounded throughout the public sector in the ACT but also in relation to education and health.
That Pied Piper stunt has now been discovered by the community and, of course, the support for the Residents Rally in the community is three-fifths of five-eighths of nothing. The fact of the matter is that Rosemary Follett speaks for the Opposition, and I have no difficulty with the announcements that she has made in relation to the matter and, of course, we will support them.
MR WOOD (11.06), in reply: Mr Speaker, I had forgotten that I had brought the committee report before the Assembly, which affords me the opportunity to reply and to close the debate. I ask members opposite to reflect for a moment on the background to this report and the outcomes. The background was one of very bitter argument following allegations of corruption, or the possibility of corruption. That debate was very acrimonious and very unpleasant. The driving force behind this measure came from the then Opposition. The name of the precise person escapes me for the moment.
The committee - representing most of the groups in the Assembly - was formed, and it considered a wide range of options, the Hong Kong model, the New South Wales model and various others. In the end the result was quite clear.
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