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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 3 Hansard (9 March) . . Page.. 868 ..

MR BERRY (continuing):

Independent members who have sold out and joined the Government, would give this amount of trust to a frontbench which has wrought so much havoc in the ACT - all of that on the basis of trust as well.

The first breach of trust in this term was amply demonstrated by Mr Moore's comments in the course of this debate. Before the first Carnell Ministry was formed Mr Moore negotiated with the Chief Minister about the future of ACTEW. Mrs Carnell told Mr Moore before he took on a position as a Minister - - -

Mr Moore: No, that is not true.

MR BERRY: Well, what is true?

MR SPEAKER: Order, please! This is not a question and answer session. This is a debate.

MR BERRY: Let us take it this far: Mrs Carnell told Mr Moore that she intended to sell ACTEW. We will check on the Hansard later to see exactly what Mr Moore said the first time. But I think there are some changes and some qualifiers coming, as is often the case.

Mr Stanhope: I think it was just the Libs.

MR BERRY: Do you think the qualifications were negotiated? Yes, I think you are probably right. Mr Moore let the cat out of the bag. What was not on the agenda before the election was on the agenda immediately afterwards.

Mr Stanhope: By March.

MR BERRY: Yes, by March or so. So here we have a significant breach of trust - not on the agenda one day, on the agenda the next. Thank you, Mr Moore for keeping us informed on this matter. I am not sure that the community will offer you much thanks for many things that you have done in recent times, but some might begrudgingly thank you for that. I will. That is the first breach of trust in this term.

But there have been many other breaches of trust in the history of this Government. In the last term this frontbench - not you, Mr Moore, but Mr Humphries, Mrs Carnell and Mr Stefaniak - carried through that most horrific event which was inflicted on the Territory.

Mr Moore: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. Standing order 62 applies in two ways - both to tedious repetition and to relevance.

MR SPEAKER: Yes, I am about to raise the question of relevance, depending on what Mr Berry states.

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, this whole endeavour is about trust.

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