Page 1033 - Week 06 - Thursday, 27 July 1989
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itinerant people who are still here and there is no reason why this Deputy Chief Minister should propose that the idea of the great Australian tradition of itinerant labour being allowed to move and not cajoled into staying by its union bosses should be ignored.
Mr Berry: Especially if they park in Reid or Braddon.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, we are all not as comfortable as members of the firemen's union, but I am sure that Mr Berry will be required to hose this one down for his party soon. It is very clear to us that the Chief Minister feels lukewarm about a casino. That has been evident from negotiations and other matters and I will not reveal personal confidences of that nature, not that I ever got any, but, Mr Speaker - - -
Mr Kaine: What does that mean?
MR COLLAERY: You can take that for what you like, but the Chief Minister has a broad grin. The fact of the matter is the left wing of the ALP in the ACT opposes the casino. They are going to have to stay now with their developer friend in their midst, Mr Whalan, and of course he will be a very successful Deputy Chief Minister for the development industry in this Territory, but it is not really a Labor government that we see bringing this on.
Mr Speaker, the Rally takes the view that, if closed government continues any further, if outrageous decisions like last weekend's decision to remove all teachers who have been in secondary colleges since 1976 - a sort of Pol Pot routine - keep up, the Rally will look very carefully at its options to move a vote of no confidence in this Government.
We warn this Deputy Chief Minister that if he attempts to start this section 19 development before there is a full planning inquiry, conducted in a professional and ethical manner, in the manner that other inquiries have been conducted interstate, we will look very carefully at moving a motion of no confidence in this Government, and then of course the Liberal Party will have to make its mind up about how it wants to go, whether it wants to be seen to be responsible for keeping this man, this Deputy Chief Minister, in government. We know that he scored 300-odd votes in the last election. He does not have much support, but he has much power at the moment in this town.
MR MOORE (10.51): Mr Speaker, let me start by reading from our policy on the casino because there seems to be much confusion about what we attempt to achieve and what we think we are going to achieve. I will start with a lead-up to it, and that is the Rally policy on section 19, because the two are difficult to separate. The Residents Rally does not consider that the proposed development for section 19 is appropriate as it offers only a piecemeal approach. With reference to the casino, the casino Act of 1988 should
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