Page 1636 - Week 06 - Thursday, 13 August 1992
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Mr Kaine: Mr Lamont does not even agree with the Government's Bill.
MR CORNWELL: Indeed. The point I am making is this: If the Government can put up 26 amendments to its own legislation, why should not this Assembly have doubts about the effectiveness of it and why should not its members quite properly believe that the matter should be referred to a select committee for further examination? This legislation gives people no faith whatsoever that the Government knows what it is doing in relation to the Animal Welfare Bill, and the evidence is there in the amendments that you people have put forward after the in-principle debate. So I reject Mr Moore's comments - - -
Mr Kaine: Sanctimonious comments.
MR CORNWELL: Indeed, sanctimonious comments. Mr Moore said that we are doing this for publicity. It seems to me, as Mr Kaine said earlier, that this is generating a great deal of publicity - much more, I am sure, than the Government intended, and certainly much more than Mr Moore intended, because he is getting publicity too and it is not in his best interests. It is no wonder Mr Moore wishes to close down the debate on the matter, because the longer it goes on the more he is going to be exposed as not really an Independent but a quasi Labor member or - - -
Mr Kaine: An appendage of the Government.
MR CORNWELL: As you say, an appendage of the Government.
Mr Connolly: No, he is not one of ours.
MR CORNWELL: I notice that Mr Connolly is at great pains to say no. I think the track record will show, however, Mr Connolly, just where Mr Moore stands in terms of this Assembly and the matters that come before it. I do not support his arguments, Madam Speaker. The evidence speaks for itself: Nineteen government amendments and seven put forward by Mr Lamont. It does not give me any assurance that the Government knows what it is doing with this piece of legislation.
MR LAMONT (11.24): Madam Speaker, I refer members assembled to Hansard, page 3890, of 23 October 1990. I will read this, if I may, Madam Speaker, because it will address the questions raised rather emotively, I might suggest, by Mr Westende, who appears to be deliberately playing the man rather than the issue.
Mr De Domenico: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. I ask Mr Lamont to withdraw that statement - "deliberately playing the man" - because Mr Westende is not doing anything of the kind.
Mr Connolly: Oh, rubbish! His speech was just a litany of attack. He was attacking Mr Lamont's character, his demeanour - - -
Mr De Domenico: Just listen. You have the chance to find out the truth as well, if you listen. Mr Lamont is going to get a bit testy because he has been called all sorts of things. He stood up. He happens to be one of only two members of this Assembly who have been censured by this Assembly.
Ms Follett: What is the point of order?
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