Page 3971 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 23 November 1993
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an example, but there may be others. In any event, Mr Wood had to make the decision, and he has been making his decisions very responsibly. I think that for Mr Moore to move this motion is an outrage, but it shows how the mishmash opposite can operate under the same umbrella when it suits them.
We heard Mr Humphries over here spinning his web of deception when he was speaking on this matter. He was trying to sing praises about his former performance, but there was no point in his trying to do that. The game was lost a long time ago. You can never recover that lost ground. It has gone forever. You have been done; forget it; do not raise it again; it will not help you. You have had it; finished; over. What in fact is going on among the Liberals? This is very clearly a motion of no confidence in the Chief Minister because Mrs Carnell mentioned the Chief Minister when she was talking about her no-confidence motion and Mr Humphries mentioned the Chief Minister when he was talking about this lack of confidence motion. So there are two supporters of an absence of confidence in the Chief Minister; but, of course, they are not telling the Independents that. What they are telling the Independents is something different. They are saying, "No, we can cobble together here something that will look like we are supporting you but it is actually a motion of no confidence in the Chief Minister and we can rush outside and say that the house has no confidence in the Chief Minister". This is more of Mr Humphries's web of deception.
I have to say that I am a little bit miffed about this because I, along with my colleague Mr Connolly, have not got a mention either. I was as much a part of the decision making - - -
Mrs Carnell: We can sort that out.
MR BERRY: Well, go for your life. You should, because I am as much a part of the decision making process as anybody, and I endorsed the budget. This explains this rubbishy group of amendments and motions. It is a cobbling together of an alliance to express a view from different directions. Of course, Dennis wants to get a part of the action as well.
Mr De Domenico: It is called democracy.
Mr Humphries: Elected members.
Mr Stevenson: Did you want to say thank you for that, Wayne?
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! I have called for order at least three times. I think it is time for a little order. Continue, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: They would not have the discipline, Madam Speaker. They would not be able to cope.
Mr Moore: You are being provocative.
MR BERRY: You see; I told you so. Wayne is right again. Madam Speaker, we have a situation where an alliance has been cobbled together, coming from all sorts of directions. Everybody wants a part of the action. I think Mr Moore's motion should fail absolutely on substance.
Ms Follett: There was not any.
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