Page 2532 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 7 August 1991
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MR SPEAKER: Yes, I believe that the opinion of the house is against your motion, Mr Collaery, and I think we would be wasting the time of the Assembly to accept that.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I am moving a motion that is different from that upon which a vote has just been taken. Mr Stevenson sought to suspend standing orders so that he could bring on a debate on private members' business. Having made a serious allegation in this Assembly, which is now at large and which names politicians, I believe that Mr Stevenson should be called upon to table the documents to which he alludes and should be given a reasonable time to address those documents. I believe that that is in the public interest.
Mrs Nolan: Are you putting a time?
MR COLLAERY: I said 15 minutes. Mr Speaker, I do not believe that the standing orders in any way would prevent this exercise. I am not addressing the substance of Mr Stevenson's issues whatsoever. I believe that this Assembly should get him to put forward his information, if he has it.
MR SPEAKER: I accept your motion.
Question resolved in the affirmative, by an absolute majority.
ORGANISED CRIME AND X-RATED VIDEO INDUSTRY ALLEGATIONS
Statements by Members and Papers
MR STEVENSON (3.20): I present the following papers:
Organised crime allegations -
Copy of letter from Acting Inspector, Internal Investigations Department, Victoria Police, dated 24 May 1991.
Operation "Manna" - Copies of seven documents.
Mr Speaker, for the last 10 years royal commissions and other inquiries by both Federal and State authorities - - -
Mr Berry: Where are the documents?
MR STEVENSON: They are on the table. Inquiries have identified networks of influence and connections between the X-rated video industry and organised crime, both here and overseas.
Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Mr Collaery's motion was that Mr Stevenson should table the documents and then speak to them, and I think he should do so.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Stevenson.
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