Page 485 - Week 02 - Thursday, 22 February 1990
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PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, I would like to make a personal explanation.
MR SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MR WHALAN: Yes, I do.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR WHALAN: In response to a question earlier, Mr Kaine used words to the effect that this morning I was out campaigning for my friends. This implied - - -
Mr Duby: That you had some.
MR WHALAN: Well, at least, Craig "Dingo" Duby, I have got some friends and Trevor acknowledges it. The fact is, Mr Speaker, that I was in the precincts of the Assembly, subject to their definition, all morning and my friends who are running for election do not need too much campaigning because they are going to romp in.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal statement.
MR SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MR MOORE: I do indeed.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR MOORE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, my understanding is that yesterday a press release was put out by Mr Dennis Stevenson which referred to me as a pawn of the porn industry - p-a-w-n and p-o-r-n - which, whilst we admire Mr Stevenson's alliteration, is hardly the case. He referred to it with particular reference to the Bill that I have tabled.
I draw the Assembly's attention to the fact that that Bill implements the policy that I helped formulate as a member of the Residents Rally. I am sure that Dr Kinloch, Norm Jensen and Mr Collaery would agree that that was part and parcel of an agreement to have a conscience vote on the issue, and that, anyway, we would remove pornography from family accessible areas. So not only was the particular press release a lie, but it could also be described as "disinformation, distortion, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, fable, fabrication, factoid, fairytale, falsehood, fib, fiction, half-truth, invention, legal fiction, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, perjury, pretext, prevarication, story, tale, tarradiddle, untruth, white lie, or a whopper".
The point that is drawn to my attention is that when people need to stoop to this sort of level instead of arguing the point, it indicates that they have very little to argue
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