Page 4440 - Week 14 - Thursday, 1 December 1994
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MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr Connolly, just address your answers to me. Please do not be distracted by Mr Moore.
Mr Moore: Will you fund it, you slimeball?
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, you can ask that question later.
MR CONNOLLY: This is a new interest for Mr Moore. Around Australia, governments have been looking seriously at this issue.
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Madam Speaker: I think standing order 39 requires people to be quiet for most of the time. Mr Moore has not been quiet for any of the time.
Mr Moore: That is not true. That is another misrepresentation. I was quiet for a second back there, Madam Speaker. But I take the point.
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, I can understand the agitation of Mr Moore and the Liberal Party.
Ms Follett: Madam Speaker, I raise a point of order as well. Mr Moore hurled some invective at Mr Connolly which I think he ought to withdraw, and that was the epithet "slimeball".
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, I am happy to let the Canberra community judge who is the slimeball - Mr Moore or me.
MADAM SPEAKER: It is not quite parliamentary language, Mr Moore.
Mr Moore: It is close enough, Madam Speaker, particularly as it applies to a man who wears two red ribbons on World AIDS Day and has a lack of compassion for people dying with AIDS.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore, I know that you are agitated today; but I would like you to reflect on that, and I will come back to it later.
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, Mr Moore will be judged by his behaviour and his comments today. I proudly wear this second ribbon, which the Aboriginal community of Canberra gave me down there, where Ms Ellis and I were the only members of this Assembly present on World AIDS Day.
Mr Moore: Madam Speaker, I will happily withdraw the word "slimeball".
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Moore. Continue, Mr Connolly.
MR CONNOLLY: I am happy to be compared by the community with Mr Moore. Madam Speaker, the national group of Territory, State and Federal Ministers noted that the National Drug Strategy Committee will be following up those major reports with some serious research. A group of researchers is scheduled to be convened in early 1995 to explore the conduct of therapeutic trials in Australia. That is something in which the
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