Page 2759 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 20 October 1992
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Mr Berry: But true.
MR MOORE: Mr Berry interjects, "But true". After being required by the Deputy Speaker to withdraw that comment, he now interjects, "But true". Madam Speaker, I draw your attention to standing order 202(e) and call on you to ask him to withdraw again.
Mr Berry: I withdraw, Michael.
MR MOORE: He has withdrawn again. Thank you, Madam Speaker, for your rapid response.
Mr Berry: You will have to learn that people disagree and learn to get on with people who disagree with you.
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, Mr Berry suggests that I have some problem in getting on with people who disagree with me. In fact, Madam Speaker, I have tabled in this Assembly a number of reports with dissenting reports, and at no stage have I had particular difficulty with people who disagree with me. I constantly deal with people who disagree with me, without turning it into the sort of battle that Mr Berry turned it into.
Mr Berry on a number of occasions referred to the national methadone guidelines and suggested that we had paid scant attention to them. But he was unable to show where we had breached those national methadone guidelines. We did not; that is why. You know that that is the case. What is different about that?
Mr Berry: What about urinalysis?
MR MOORE: Mr Berry now interjects, "What about urinalysis?". I shall get to urinalysis in a short while. Those national guidelines, Madam Speaker, are those approved by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy. I have to ask Mr Berry: Was the very good marijuana legislation that went through this Assembly with his support supported by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy? Was it within those guidelines? Of course it was not, Mr Berry. Therefore, to suggest that somebody is making the ACT a social laboratory because they propose laws that they believe are in the best interests of the people of Canberra is, of course, just a cop-out on your part. The only reason you want to cop out is that you do not like making decisions on your own. You do not like doing anything that happens to be right if you consider that in some way it may threaten your position or the position of the Labor Party.
Mrs Grassby: We know why Kate did not vote for it. You cannot sell marijuana in pharmacies.
Mr De Domenico: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I overheard Mrs Grassby say, "Do you know why Kate did not do it? It was because she cannot sell marijuana in a pharmacy". I suggest that, even for Mrs Grassby, that sort of comment is a bit below the belt.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Grassby, I did not hear that comment; but - - -
Mrs Grassby: Yes, I am quite happy to withdraw.
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