Page 5271 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990

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MR MOORE (8.54): It was just a quick attempt to compromise, Mr Speaker, but it does not seem to be getting anywhere. The precedent that you are setting up here is interesting. What you are showing yourselves to be is very upper middle class. It is true, Mr Collaery, in spite of that look. If we had approached any other part of the legislation or any other part of the crime legislation and we had said, "People have assured us that it will be okay, so we will not bother putting in penalties for rape or whatever - - -

Mr Berry: Ask Bill Stefaniak.

MR MOORE: Exactly. "The police move-on powers will be fine; we will not need to have any penalties for those". That is the sort of thing you are saying. "Look, we are giving him an opportunity, but we are not going - - -

Mr Humphries: We are giving them six months, Michael.

MR MOORE: You are saying six months and we are agreeing that six months is a reasonable way to go. I am just trying to see whether we can get logic and rational thought to prevail in this particular instance, rather than the badgerings of a few powerful lobbyists, and that is really what we have here. For the good of the community as a whole, what you should do is accept the amendment that I have put up to Mr Berry's amendment and then accept Mr Berry's amendment. It is the logical way to go. In fact, it is also what your department believed was the appropriate way to go, and in this particular instance it got it right.

Amendment (Mr Moore's) negatived.

Question put:

That the proposed new clause (Mr Berry's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 6  NOES, 10 

Mr Berry Mr Collaery

Mr Connolly Mr Duby

Ms Follett Mr Humphries

Mrs Grassby Mr Jensen

Mr Moore Mr Kaine

Mr Wood Dr Kinloch

 Mrs Nolan

 Mr Prowse

 Mr Stefaniak

 Mr Stevenson

Question so resolved in the negative.

Clauses 44 and 45, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

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