Page 4680 - Week 15 - Thursday, 16 December 1993
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MS FOLLETT: Thank you, Madam Speaker. This Bill gives effect to the choice made by the people of the ACT to have the Hare-Clark electoral system with Robson rotation for elections for the Legislative Assembly. The Bill also ensures that elections will be conducted by an independent Electoral Commission, and the political process will be kept honest by a stringent scheme for disclosure of political donations and expenditure.
Members interjected.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Moore: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. We would ask the Chief Minister, through you, to try to keep to the truth.
Mr Berry: I think there is an imputation drawn by Mr Moore. I would ask that that be withdrawn.
Mr Kaine: The Chief Minister herself used the word "honest". Are we not allowed to comment on that?
Mr Humphries: Speaking to the point of order - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! I am speaking. Mr Moore, were you calling the Chief Minister a person who does not tell the truth, or were you referring in general to the matter at hand?
Mr Moore: Madam Speaker, I would ask the Chief Minister to keep to the truth.
MADAM SPEAKER: That is an imputation of an untruth on her part. I ask you to withdraw it.
Mr Moore: I think, Madam Speaker, that the - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, I am asking you to withdraw. Please withdraw.
Mr Moore: Madam Speaker, I think that the facts were speaking for themselves.
MADAM SPEAKER: Have you withdrawn?
Mr Moore: In deference to you, Madam Speaker, I withdraw.
Mr Humphries: May I address you on the point of order, Madam Speaker?
MADAM SPEAKER: No.
Mr Moore: I withdraw.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you.
Mr Humphries: May I address you on the point of order?
MADAM SPEAKER: No. The point of order is over. He has withdrawn.
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, members will recall that in 1992 the Commonwealth's self-government Act was amended to give the Legislative Assembly power to enact ACT electoral legislation. Due to the need to determine electoral boundaries as soon as possible, a two-stage process was adopted.
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