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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4646 ..

MR MOORE: You are saying, "I did not have anything to do with it; nor did any of my Ministers, actually. We did not interfere with it". You are already beginning to distance yourself a little bit.

Mrs Carnell: We did not rewrite it.

MR MOORE: No; we understand the tone. We understand political speech. We understand what you are saying. That is what we see. Mr Speaker, the amendment, I think, needs a little bit of modification - - -

Mr Osborne: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. I have let Mr Moore go on for about 10 minutes, but I have yet to hear him show any cause as to why he should call the Chief Minister dishonest. Maybe we have different rules for different people in this house, but I was asked to withdraw it last week.

Mr Humphries: I think you have a point there, Mr Osborne.

Mr Osborne: Perhaps you are going to get to it, Mr Moore. I do not know. Mr Speaker, I have yet to hear him justify calling the Chief Minister dishonest.

MR MOORE: No, I did not call - - -

MR SPEAKER: The term you used, I think, Mr Moore, was "dishonest approach". Is that correct?

MR MOORE: Indeed. I did not call the Chief Minister dishonest. I have never called the Chief Minister dishonest. I do not believe that the Chief Minister is a dishonest person. What I am saying is that an approach has been taken that is dishonest. I think there is a very important difference between the two, Mr Speaker. If the Chief Minister believes - - -

Mr Osborne: On a point of order, Mr Speaker - - -

MR MOORE: I will just finish off and I will answer your point of order. If the Chief Minister believes, Mr Speaker, that I have called her dishonest, or implied that she is dishonest, then I withdraw it.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you.

Mr Osborne: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Thank you, Mr Moore.

MR MOORE: My pleasure. Mr Speaker, with specific reference to the amendment put to you by Ms McRae, I must admit that I lost concentration when she was putting the amendment. The first line in the circulated version is, "I move that before the report is noted". I think that needs to be deleted to make sure that the whole motion would follow, if, indeed, the amendment that I have put up follows. That may need to be done just to make the system work in the best possible fashion.

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