Page 887 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 13 March 1991
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is going to be slurred by Mr Moore's actions. I must say that until today I had never quite realised the depth of hate for Mr Collaery which is obviously apparent on Mr Moore's part. I do realise that today.
The biggest casualty in these arrangements, of course, will be, once more, the authority and status of this Assembly. Those on this side of the track, even the Labor Party, will all be held in lower esteem by the citizens of this Territory because of what has happened here today. Whatever Mr Moore might have done, nothing could be more damaging than that, in my view.
MR JENSEN (4.15): Mr Speaker, I wish to make a few brief comments in relation to the matter on which Mr Moore started his comments this afternoon - the statutory declaration that was subsequently tabled by my colleague Mr Collaery in this house almost two years ago now. I was present at the particular meeting and discussion when that statutory declaration was prepared. That statutory declaration was prepared in Mr Collaery's handwriting; that is correct. But it was dictated by Miss Daly because, in fact, Miss Daly has some difficulty writing, as Mr Moore full well knows.
Mr Duby: She has a disability, doesn't she?
MR JENSEN: That is correct. The statement was given to those people in the presence of her mother, her brother, me and the lawyer that Mr Collaery mentioned.
Dr Kinloch: And I was there.
MR JENSEN: Dr Kinloch was there as well. Clearly, Mr Speaker, Mr Moore's suggestion today, by holding up the statement, saying that it was written in Mr Collaery's handwriting and saying that there was some impropriety in the taking of that statutory declaration, is scandalous. Miss Daly made that statutory declaration knowing full well that it was to be tabled in this Assembly, that it was to be made public. She was a very courageous lady who was prepared to back up her commitment and understanding of what she believed to be the facts. There was no compunction; there was no concern on Miss Daly's part that what she was doing could possibly cause her some problems in the future. She did it because she believed what she saw and heard. That is why, Mr Speaker, that statutory declaration was made the way it was. I am proud to say that Libby Daly is a friend of mine.
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (4.17): Mr Speaker, given the evidence that Mr Moore has given that he destroyed the document that I have asked to be tabled, I seek leave to withdraw my motion.
Leave granted.
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