Page 4163 - Week 14 - Thursday, 25 October 1990
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kind of a service is that? You would be better off sending for a taxi, and most people know that. What about the family of the young man who had to be taken to Sydney, desperately ill, on a mattress in the back of a station wagon? I think they would be very clear in their minds as to whose side they are on, and it would not be that of the current Minister for Health.
Mr Berry took up that issue when the Minister would not, when none of you were even aware of it, it seems, let alone cared about it. You have an enormous hide in seeking to censure this man. A censure motion from a Government which has a clear majority in this house! What are you hoping to prove? That you still have got the numbers? I do not deny it. Mr Speaker, this Government is acting like a rabble. They are, in fact, acting like a very poor Opposition. Why move a censure motion? We know that you have the numbers. The only reason that they are moving this censure motion, Mr Speaker, is as a desperate diversionary tactic. It is a desperate diversionary tactic. They know full well that they had to back down on the censure motion against me. They have had to back down on any number of issues all this week. You are looking like a bunch of idiots. You are moving a censure motion when you already know that you have the numbers. All you have not got, of course, is the facts. All you have not got, of course, is any evidence whatsoever that Mr Berry should be censured. It is a load of nonsense, Mr Speaker. In taking such a paltry action, knowing that you already have the numbers, what are you trying to prove? You are behaving like a rabble and you deserve to be censured, one and all.
MR MOORE (3.59): Mr Speaker, as you know, I had written out an amendment to this motion to turn it back around. I think it is important for me to share with the Assembly a public statement that I made today which may or may not be played on television or radio or whatever. After discussions with the Labor Party we are determined not to waste the Assembly's time by censuring Mr Duby and Mr Collaery for the situation which involved some question over their travel, which the Chief Minister admitted to the Estimates Committee.
Mr Collaery: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is entirely irrelevant. If Mr Moore has an issue here he should raise it at the right time under the right rules.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Collaery. I believe it is irrelevant. Please proceed, Mr Moore.
MR MOORE: I am trying to point out the time wasting that is going on in this Assembly on this particular motion. And on this particular motion the - - -
Mr Kaine: Well, we will vote on it now. That is okay.
MR MOORE: The Chief Minister interjects, "We will vote on it now". Of course, having had their say, they are willing to gag debate.
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