Page 4044 - Week 13 - Thursday, 10 November 1994
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Mr Stevenson: Why do you not discuss the EIR Bill, Michael?
MR MOORE: I will get to that. I put that to the Liberals. The second warning relates to the non-binding referendum on Hare-Clark. What could happen with the type of legislation that Mrs Carnell has presented is exactly what happened there, where the Labor Government moved an amendment, a very small amendment, which totally undermined the whole system. There is nothing to stop that happening under this pretend CIR system. We already have two warnings as to what can happen. We have to do it gently.
Mr Stevenson: The pretence was the inquiry, not the EIR Bill.
MR MOORE: Mr Stevenson asks, by way of interjection, why we did not deal with his Bill. We rejected his Bill very early in the piece, Madam Speaker, because it was quite clear that what we have to do before we can get a proper or an appropriate CIR, where citizens genuinely have a say and genuinely are empowered, is to have an amendment to the self-government Act. Mr Stevenson's Bill did not recognise that. Therefore, we felt that it was inadequate.
Mr Stevenson: Not true. But what about an amendment, if that were the case?
MR MOORE: The committee, as a whole, also believed - - -
Mr Stevenson: What about an amendment, Michael? Handle the issue; do not avoid it.
MR MOORE: I can also raise my voice, Mr Stevenson. The committee, as a whole, believed that the Stevenson Bill was entirely inadequate, compared to the Carnell Bill. That is the crunch.
Mr Stevenson: That is not my Bill.
MR MOORE: Like Mr Stevenson, I am capable of raising my voice, although I would prefer not to do it. Madam Speaker, that is why the committee believes that this issue needs to be dealt with properly, not rushed through; there is no reason to rush it through this Assembly. It can be dealt with appropriately; and those issues need to be dealt with appropriately.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, you will need to table that paper.
MR MOORE: I table the submission, as approved by the Assembly.
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