Page 869 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 13 March 1991
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Mr Kaine: No; he has leave, and we want him to put up or shut up.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR MOORE: That is what I intend to do. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I refer to page 804 of the Hansard of 6 July 1989, where Mr Whalan moved that, pursuant to standing order 213, all documents from which Mr Collaery quoted during his address be presented to the Assembly. Mr Collaery presented a series of papers. Included in that series of papers, of course, was a statutory declaration from Miss Libby Daly. Her statutory declaration appears on page 802 and was read into the Hansard by Mr Collaery.
You will note, Mr Speaker, that it was not difficult for Mr Collaery to read that into the Hansard because, if you look at the copy of the motion that I have from yesterday in Mr Collaery's handwriting and compare it with the handwriting of that statutory declaration by Miss Libby Daly, you will notice a surprising similarity, nay, an uncanny similarity - in fact, a sameness. I will now read from the Hansard at page 802 how Mr Collaery substantiated his allegations. That statutory declaration read:
I, Elisabeth Frances Daly of 24 Willis Street, Evatt in the Australian Capital Territory, invalid pensioner, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:
1. I have personally known Geoffrey Da Deppo of 36 Monkman Street, Chapman since 1974.
2. I recently asked him to sponsor me in the Miss Australia Quest and I have had a number of meetings with him and many telephone conversations.
3. My brother Christopher Daly has been employed casually at a city restaurant/wine bar known as De Depot.
4. In August 1988 I said words to the effect to Geoffrey Da Deppo, "How's business", and he said, "Great - I've got the casino". I said, "How long have you had that?" and he said, "Since the beginning of July". He then said, "Don't tell anyone".
5. On 28 June 1989 I telephoned Mr Da Deppo on his telephone number some time after 1.30 pm. I said, "I'm concerned about the lack of time to sell tickets for a fashion parade at De Depot". He said, "Don't worry I can get people there, Paul Whalan's coming. I've got to look after my $100,000 investment". I said, "Really?".
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