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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 3690 ..

MR QUINLAN (continuing):

continue to work for the community in a constructive and hands - on way, as I did before I came to this place.

Mr Moore apparently does not define what he does as related to the community and, sadly, from his part I find this believable. I find it believable that Mr Moore has other than a community contributive agenda. We are now talking about a man who was elected to this place on the ticket of the Residents Rally and who, having used them to get elected, dropped them and became an Independent. Re - elected as an Independent, he then ratted upon those people who elected him to this place as an Independent and became a Liberal. Sensing some difficulty in relation to his future -

Mr Moore: It is not true. You are misleading the house.

MR QUINLAN: Well, let me say, in all but name, a Liberal. Sensing some difficulty in re - election, he then went off and had a little flirtation with the Democrats. The Democrats, to their eternal credit, rejected him, so he is now back to being a large - L Liberal in all but name.

MR SPEAKER: Could I remind you, Mr Quinlan, about relevance, please?

MR QUINLAN: This is relevant to the motivation for the matter we are addressing here today, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Standing order 55 is clear.

MR QUINLAN: This is probably the most relevant point made today.

Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: I believe standing orders actually address this question of motivation by making it outside standing orders for members to allege improper motives for members. If what Mr Quinlan is saying is that Mr Moore has an improper motive, that is outside standing orders, and it is also arguably irrelevant.

MR SPEAKER: Yes. I do uphold the point of order. I do not know that Mr Quinlan was really straying, Chief Minister, into standing order 55. However, certainly the irrelevancy has to be recognised. Mr Quinlan, I am sure that what you have to say can be covered within the scope of this legislation without making imputations that may or may not be rejected, ultimately, by Mr Moore.

MR QUINLAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I did actually wish to arrive at the point where I addressed the comment made by Mr Moore earlier in this debate.

MR SPEAKER: Then address it, sir.

MR QUINLAN: Permitted by yourself, he called Mr Berry a slimeball. Let me respond to that by saying -

MR SPEAKER: The chair did not hear that.

MR QUINLAN: With Mr Berry, what you see is what you get.

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