Page 2142 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 29 May 1991
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If you want to ask me how many policies I could have achieved from the cross bench with my colleagues had they not sold out, I could answer this way: A hell of a lot more than you were able to achieve within government. At the same time I did not have to undermine, nor did you have to undermine, the trust of the people of Canberra.
Mr Collaery: If you had not quit the Rally, no school would have closed. It was your vote that we missed. Do not forget that, Michael.
MR MOORE: Mr Collaery interjects and blames me for selling out on the people of Canberra. It is certainly not worth a reply because Mr Collaery has simply become an amusement, not even a joke. Had he resigned on principle at any stage, which he ought to have done, there may have been some reason to respect him; but instead he has been fired. The only one who gets any stature out of it is the Chief Minister because he finally could not stand the double-dealing - saying one thing but doing the other, the sort of thing that might well be described as hypocrisy.
The Chief Minister argues about the good decisions and stable government, but it seems to me that we do not necessarily have to have a majority government for stable government. This is the sort of argument that Mr Collaery loves to put, and Mr Read repeated it this morning on the radio when he told the people of Canberra that the Residents Rally would be voting against the motion to withdraw the variations on the schools. At 10.10 this morning that is what the president of the Residents Rally indicated to the people of Canberra; yet we have Mr Jensen and Mr Collaery arguing in this house that, because of their action to protect the schools, they have resigned in some way.
They did not resign; they were fired because of their incompetence and because they have sold out on the people of Canberra. The reality of it is that they are not to be trusted. Whilst I might disagree with Trevor Kaine on many, many things, when it comes to who is to be believed, he is the person who will have the credibility over any member of the Residents Rally. However, I disagree with some things as far as Trevor Kaine goes.
Mr Kaine: You were going well, Michael. What do you have to do that for?
MR MOORE: I have to have a go at anybody when I can. The reality is that the hard decisions that Trevor Kaine talks about making have not been made. It is not a hard decision to sell off the leasehold of the commercial leases, take them away from the community and hand them over to your mates. It is not a hard decision; it is a stupid and bad decision.
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