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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1995 Week 9 Hansard (23 November) . . Page.. 2485 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

Mr Speaker, the truth of the matter is that Labor has the opportunity to do something about this. The Roberta McRae solution is to put them into government, put them out of government, put them into government, put them out of government, put them into government. Every time we do not like something, just take them out of government and then put them back in; take them out of government, put them back in. That, supposedly, is some form of stable government.

Ms Follett: You would prefer us to go to court.

MR MOORE: You know quite well what we could have done because it is non-justiciable - that is a hard word to say at this time of night - - -

Mr Osborne: Ask Harold to say it for you.

MR MOORE: It is all right. You know quite well what we could do and what you could still do. We are quite happy to bring that motion on to negative the stupid one that you combined with your Liberal mates to pass early today. We can get rid of that and get a chance to do something about getting an overview of the budget from the Assembly as a whole. You still have the opportunity to do that and you can still deliver. It does not matter how you try to dress it up, and I know you will - the reason you are squirming is that you know that we are right, as much as you try to deny it - you have your chance and you are going to throw it away because you want to get into government.

Ms Follett: Sit down. Come on; where is your audience? We have heard it all before. Sit down.

MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, one of the things that Rosemary Follett would have noticed over the last six years is that I do not take orders from her. I never have and never will. I am quite happy to continue talking on the public transport system, because the public transport system is important in this debate. What Rosemary Follett would have done with it had she not had Terry Connolly to massage through the reforms that he carried out, one has to wonder about, because, Mr Speaker, the major policy of Rosemary Follett was to do nothing. That is what she did for five years. That is why it is, Mr Speaker, that I am not going to take the risk that she might just wind up as Chief Minister again. She was a hopeless Chief Minister, and that was recognised. That is what is recognised by her backbench. It was not because she did anything bad, Mr Speaker, as such, because to do something bad you actually have to do something.

Ms Follett: Like funding education, social justice, health.

MR MOORE: She interjects, "Education and social justice". Education is the first one, Mr Speaker. Yes, she did something there. She cut it.

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