Page 3369 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 18 September 1990
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MR JENSEN: Yes, I seem to have seen that look once before. Talk about projectionism - psychological projectionism. Mr Moore is trying it on me and I can assure you, Mr Speaker, that he is not winning at all. It is that dark look again. Mr Moore knows very well what I am talking about. I seem to recall the day after he indicated that he had no vision - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Relevance, Mr Jensen.
MR JENSEN: I am sorry, Mr Speaker. Well, we will move off that. We know all about Mr Moore's lack of vision. I guess he has a similar sort of lack of vision when it comes to committees, Mr Speaker, because he seeks not to participate. However, in relation to full debates in this Assembly in relation to the committee deliberations, Mr Moore will be quite able to say everything he wants. So, frankly, I do not see what the problem is over there. Last year the minority Labor Government did not have the numbers. I am talking now about situations where I did suggest that it would be appropriate, Mr Moore, for this Assembly to have a different format.
However, the Labor group, as you well know, Mr Moore, refused to participate in the collegiate form of government that we would have been quite happy to participate in.
Ms Follett: I was not invited.
MR JENSEN: Oh, rubbish, Ms Follett. You know full well that we spoke about the issue and the possibility of a collegiate form of government; but, because you were wedded so much to the two-party system and you did not accept the fact that an organisation like the Residents Rally - - -
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order on relevance.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Berry. Please proceed, Mr Jensen, to the point.
MR JENSEN: I thought I was being to the point, Mr Speaker. We are talking here about open government. That is what the committee system is all about. But Ms Follett was not prepared, with her cohorts at the time, to participate in the collegiate form of government that I certainly spoke of. Mr Connolly would not know because he was not there. It was Mr Whalan, Mr Speaker, that was driving the issues in those days - not Mr Connolly, of course, because he was not there.
So, as Mr Moore admits, Mr Speaker, they were not prepared to participate in a sort of collegiate government. Therefore, Mr Speaker, because of this we are forced to continue on in a situation where we have an Opposition and a Government. If that is the way they wish to have this Assembly run, well, that is the way it will happen.
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