Page 3603 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 8 December 1992
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Mr Kaine: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I am rather interested to know how Mr Moore can speak with any authority on something that happened within a committee. I think he has to be careful what he says.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, you may continue.
MR MOORE: After that weird interjection from somebody who purports to be able to read other people's minds - - -
Mr Kaine: You are pretending to read mine.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR MOORE: I have no intention of talking about what went on in a committee. I am going to talk about what appears to have happened from outside the committee. I understand that the committee report, in fact, was tabled with you on Friday afternoon, and the question has to be - - -
Mr Kaine: As agreed.
MR MOORE: As agreed. The question has to be: What was the rush? Who was looking after whom, and who was looking after mates, to rush this particular report - - -
Mr Lamont: Madam Speaker, I stand on a point of order. I do so with some reluctance in relation to the imputations contained in Mr Moore's comments. I seek to have them withdrawn. If they are repeated by Mr Moore I will continually ask him to withdraw them.
MR MOORE: I have said it only once, for heaven's sake.
Mr Lamont: That is enough. Withdraw it.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, I would like you to withdraw any improper imputation in your comment.
MR MOORE: I do not believe that I have made any improper imputation to this point; but, in deference to you, Madam Speaker, I withdraw whatever it is that Mr Lamont reacts so strongly to - and one cannot help wondering why.
Mr Lamont: Madam Speaker, I rise again. Mr Moore is attempting to make rather cheap political mileage, as Ms Szuty has obviously done, out of the West Belconnen variation. He is quite at liberty to do that; but I am not prepared to allow Mr Moore or Ms Szuty or anybody else to make a personal reflection on me but, more importantly, upon the members of the committee, who to date have worked in an exemplary fashion on variations and issues that have been placed before them. This is an outrage and something that I believe you should not condone.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, I remind you of the provisions of standing order 55, which require that you do not make any improper imputations against the motives of anyone in the chamber. I will allow you to proceed.
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, the question I asked was: What is the rush about this particular variation? I think that is a very important question to ask. What is the rush?
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