Page 1952 - Week 06 - Thursday, 2 May 1991
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It just goes to show you how weak your arguments are, and I think it just demonstrates that this is nothing more than an excuse to get out of work, because, as people in the community definitely know, this is a very lazy Opposition. They are a sloppy and lazybones type of persons because they refuse to do their work; that is what it boils down to. You have painted yourselves into a corner, and you are not going to get out of it. It is a very sad state of affairs that this is allowed to continue.
Members interjected.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, members! There are about five people talking, as well as Mr Duby. Keep it down.
MR DUBY: The day will come when you will rue the stand that you have taken on this matter.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR MOORE: Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a statement under standing order 46.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MR MOORE: I do, indeed.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Proceed, Mr Moore.
MR MOORE: The Chief Minister in his speech talked, in a collective way, about members who were not participating in these committees as not doing any work, not earning the money which they were paid and not representing their constituents. This was reiterated by Mr Duby. It was a clear misrepresentation, Mr Deputy Speaker.
If the Chief Minister bothered to read, for example, the joint report on the planning legislation of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure and the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and the Environment, he would realise that the combined statements by the Labor Party and me are a little over half the size of the full report. The full report was prepared with the assistance of the secretariat, whereas we had to prepare our statements ourselves - and, by the way, our statements are far better than the report anyway. This indicates how seriously we take the work of the committees, even though we take this stance. What I was seeking to do in this debate was to see whether we could get some consensus to look for and find a compromise. We have not found a compromise yet, but it is a compromise that we are looking for.
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