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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 11 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 3476 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

and I have been very pleased with the answer I have got. I am very supportive of the way that it is done with regard to some very small grants and funding for community organisations. For example, I was of the view that we do not want to put into place a large reporting component which would effectively take more effort than the money was worth. That has been done. Specific to your question on how much and was a contract involved, Mr Berry, I shall get back to you. I will take that question on notice.

MR BERRY: I have a supplementary question. Is it not true, Minister, that you arranged a retrospective contract with no fixed costs between your two former political colleagues after concerns were raised with you? Do you still persist with your claim that this was conducted at arm's length and there is no political cronyism involved? Mr Speaker, I seek leave to table a copy of the contract.

MR MOORE: You just said there was no contract.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Is leave granted to table the document?

MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, I was asked by Mr Berry was it done with no contract? Now he tells me he is tabling a contract. Was it - - -

Mr Berry: No. I will ask it again, to help you.

MR SPEAKER: No. What are you asking leave to table?

Mr Berry: I have tabled it. It is a document.

MR SPEAKER: Is leave granted to table the document?

Leave granted.

MR BERRY: I will repeat the question for the Minister. Is it not true that you arranged a retrospective contract with no fixed costs between you and your two former political colleagues after concerns were raised with you? Do you still persist with your claim that this was conducted at arm's length and that there is no political cronyism involved?

MR MOORE: Why are you muddying people's names? For heaven's sake, say which two former political colleagues and I will do it. The answer to your question is no. Absolutely no. I did not make any arrangement in a retrospective way at all, Mr Berry. The way you go in terms of this sort of mud-slinging is something that I think is appalling. The Labor Party, the Auditor-General, whoever it is; it does not matter.

Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research is the firm that did it. The only other person I can think of who was involved at all in this area is the former president of ADFACT, where there is certainly no money involved. Mr Graeme Evans has fulfilled that role for many years, giving of his own time and so forth. Yes, he was on a ticket of Moore Independents a couple of elections ago, I think. He has made a contribution in the community. He has made a fair contribution in the community in many ways,

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