Page 4443 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 21 November 1990
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be an appropriate time, hopefully on a bipartisan basis, to launch that public process which would show up our negotiating stand to the Commonwealth.
Usually, as everyone knows, we do not go through a public breast beating exercise by virtue of some select committee before we put our cases to the Grants Commission and other financial negotiating tables. Why should we in this case when there is so much at stake - more than $50m? Clearly, Mr Moore, in his usual impetuous manner, the sort of manner we saw yesterday, wants us to indulge in another little grandstanding effort, no doubt so that he can travel around the country again on another select committee's inquiry. Mr Moore was churlish enough to criticise our travel. He clearly did not know that some of that travel was to Brisbane to give a national speech on behalf of the ACT on community policing as we see it in the ACT.
Ms Follett: Can we have a copy of it?
MR COLLAERY: That speech is available; but, since Mr Moore resents travel by anyone but himself, I suggest that he either go up to Brisbane when he goes to a brothel there next on his exercise - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Collaery, please!
MR COLLAERY: Certainly he is visiting brothels in Brisbane. He has a Courier-Mail article, Mr Speaker, on one of his recent visits to Fortitude Valley or somewhere. He certainly has. He has incurred $23,000 in expenditure for the Territory through his committee. So, nonsense words were put forward.
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: It does not do this place any good to have that sort of drivel going on. I think he ought to withdraw that allegation.
MR COLLAERY: He has visited brothels in the course of the committee.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Collaery actually added the additional words to make it clear. It was after it was said, I admit. But the explanation covered the use of the verbiage.
MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (4.55): Mr Speaker, I would just like to comment on Mr Collaery's response to the very reasoned remarks made by Mr Moore on the question of the provision of law and order services in the ACT. I think Mr Collaery is trying to skate over the fact that there have been at least two attempts in this Assembly - one by Mr Wood and one by Mr Moore - to throw some light on the expenditure of this $54m-odd on policing services in the ACT.
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