Page 1389 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 12 May 1993
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Mr Wood: What's in a name? A rose by any other.
MR MOORE: I hear Mr Wood slip into Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. That appeals to me because I have had a great deal to do with Shakespeare. I am tempted to keep it going, but I shall leave it there with a final suggestion to members: We really could be a legislative council. We could write after our names "MLC". If anybody is a little bit worried about that, you are entitled to "MP" anyway, because you are a member of parliament. You could write "MP" instead of "MLC" or "MLA". There is a whole series of choices you could make.
Ms Follett: What about lord mayor?
MR MOORE: I do not think "LM" is very good; 17 people could not use that. It seems to me, Madam Speaker, that we have some options. The best thing that we can do in this Assembly is feel pretty relaxed about the fact that Mr Stevenson is able to dupe some of the people but he is not duping anybody in this Assembly.
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (5.03): Clearly, the Labor Party and the Government would resist this sort of nonsense that has been proposed by Mr Stevenson. I agree with Mr Moore that one of the biggest - - -
Mr Moore: On this occasion.
MR BERRY: No, I agree with Mr Moore on a lot of occasions. On this particular one it is so clear that the biggest shonk in this Assembly is Mr Stevenson. This man, as he has been appropriately described, has duped the ACT community and he continues to do so. The biggest shock would be to Dennis Stevenson if his motion worked; he would not want that to occur. If he thought it was going to happen he would not do it because he would not be able to pursue his dark agenda. There will be more on this dark agenda as time passes. Dennis would have been applauding the white supremacists in Queensland daubing neo-Nazi slogans on the synagogue. That is the sort of dark agenda that we will see from this man time and time again. He will be exposed; it just takes time. Let us not kid ourselves about where Dennis Stevenson comes from. He likes this formal approach because it enables him to run those dark agendas that he runs quietly all the time. But he will get his.
There is a similarity, though, with Mrs Carnell. Dennis pretends that he is all things to all people too, and Mrs Carnell, trying to be popular, said, "Here is a damn good idea; I can make myself a bit popular here as well". The words are pretty clear:
... you'd create a policy, a Liberal Party policy, going to the next election -
that is you, Mrs Carnell -
supporting a city council style of government, or administration in the ACT?
Mrs Carnell, you replied:
Simply put, yes.
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