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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 4927 ..

Question put:

That the motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 11	 NOES, 6

Mrs Carnell	Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell	Mr Corbell
Mr Hird		Ms McRae
Ms Horodny	Ms Reilly
Mr Humphries	Mr Whitecross
Mr Kaine	Mr Wood
Mrs Littlewood
Mr Moore
Mr Osborne
Mr Stefaniak
Ms Tucker

MR MOORE: Pursuant to standing order 46, Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make personal explanations. Can I do the four, one at a time, rather than sitting down and requesting leave each time?

MR SPEAKER: Yes. Proceed.

MR MOORE: The first issue on which I was misrepresented was where Mr Corbell suggested to the Assembly that my support for the review that we have just debated was a trade-off to have Professor Pettit there. This is the very slimiest of politicking. The depths to which Mr Corbell has dropped are extraordinary. And here is the proof. The reality is that I had announced my support long before I had even suggested Professor Pettit to the Chief Minister and certainly long before he was appointed. That is the first one, Mr Speaker. The second one is that whilst I have been barraged here by the Labor Party about not being prepared to negotiate with them at all, at the very time that was going on, my office and I were negotiating with Mr Whitecross about matters on the daily program.

Thirdly, Mr Speaker, Mr Berry suggested that I am responsible for futsal and the hospital tragedy, in so far as I am a member of the crossbenches who supported the Government. That also makes me responsible, of course, for the closure of Royal Canberra Hospital, completed by Mr Berry, whom I supported in government; for VITAB, which was the responsibility of Mr Berry, whom I supported into government; and for the constant budget blow-outs in the portfolios of Mr Berry when he was Minister, whom I supported in government.

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