Page 5629 - Week 17 - Thursday, 5 December 1991
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MR MOORE (11.59): Mr Wood's argument is that this was too quickly drafted and therefore is entirely inappropriate. If he has found a problem with it in the discussions that have been going on over the last couple of weeks, I find it incomprehensible that the matter was not raised - unless he has some further agenda, and I do not believe that he has. I cannot understand, if you have some difficulty, why that matter was not raised with Mr Jensen, as, indeed, several matters were raised with me that have caused me to come up with a compromise to some of the amendments that I have raised. If there is a problem, let us take care of it.
Why should we be told, after two years, when we are two-thirds of the way through this planning legislation, that we are going to rush this through tonight? If you think it is important to get it through, fine; we sit here, and we keep sitting, until it is done.
Mr Berry: No; until you get your own way.
MR MOORE: Mr Berry interjects, in a most "burlish" way, that we sit until we get our way.
Mr Jensen: "Oafish", I think, is the term. Bullying tactics.
MR MOORE: It would seem to me that there is no need for bullying tactics. We have accepted the vote of the Assembly again and again where things have not gone Mr Jensen's way and where things have not gone my way. We have made compromises. We still intend to speak to the particular clauses or about the particular problems we have. I believe that it is fair to say that in speaking to these we have been very careful to avoid repetition. Time and time again I have heard Mr Jensen stand up and say, "This matter has been covered". Time and time again I have said the same thing; that where this matter has been covered I am not going to repeat it. It is not good enough to have Wayne Berry think he can push people into completing this.
Mr Berry: I think you are trying to block it.
MR MOORE: Mr Berry once again unfairly interjects and says, "I think you are trying to block it". I have just this minute said that I am prepared to sit here until whatever hour, until it gets done. It is not a question of trying to block it. It seems that the Labor Party is trying, for some reason, to get ready to guillotine this debate because it is not going their way enough.
MR JENSEN (12.01): Mr Deputy Speaker, we might be able to solve the problem if I am prepared to amend my amendment to subclause 160(8). If we delete subparagraph (a) and retain subparagraph (b) in the subclause - - -
Mr Wood: By interjection may I say that we are trying to write an amendment here at that point.
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