Page 1306 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 16 April 1991
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He may well be capable of doing all the things that are said on the back of the pamphlet. He is a man of many parts. I would not mind going to this seminar, in many ways, to find out just how you do some of these things, but I think that the claims made on the front of the document are patently false, patently absurd. I would hope, as I said, that Mr Stevenson will set us straight by confirming that he has never made claims to these attributes.
MR STEVENSON (5.12): Firstly, I think any attempt by the Labor Party to spend time when I had a matter prepared to go before this Assembly, as everybody in the Assembly knows, indicating a connection between organised crime and the X-rated video industry, is appalling.
Mrs Nolan: It can be done tonight.
MR STEVENSON: It is all very well to say that it can be done tonight. It needed to be done this afternoon, ideally.
Mr Connolly: Why?
MR STEVENSON: I wanted to get it on as soon as possible so that the media would have an opportunity to report it. You well understand.
Mrs Grassby: Well, you should have moved that way. You did not move.
MR STEVENSON: Once again, I got leave to move after a certain time. But to bring this up at this time - by all means bring it up at another time; I welcome it - I wonder, why now? Secondly, as far as the leaflet is concerned, I did not create it. I did supply some of the information for it. First of all, let us have a look at holding the balance of power in the ACT Legislative Assembly. It is interesting, although not to me, that some people in this Assembly would say that I did not.
Ms Follett: About 16 of them, I think.
Mrs Grassby: Sixteen to one is awful odds.
MR STEVENSON: We have had 16 to one odds in this place before, and it will certainly happen again, I would not doubt.
Mr Collaery: I think it will, soon.
MR STEVENSON: I will have to seek an extension of time after a while. Let us have a look at a little history of this Assembly. On 11 May 1989 Rosemary Follett was elected as the Chief Minister. The actions leading up to that election were interesting. I had said that I was voting for Mr Collaery. I should make the reason known. It was because Mr Collaery represented what I and many other people held to be a community-based party and therefore I,
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