Page 596 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 21 March 1990
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MR JENSEN: Mrs Grassby interjects, "When it suits it". I would suggest that it will be a long time before Mrs Grassby is able to suggest that this Government is not happy to accept the order of private members' business as it is put forward by those on the other side of the Assembly. That is no problem at all, Mr Speaker; let them try. We will be clear that private members' business is private members' business and we will not seek to interfere with the order. We will be prepared to debate it whenever and wherever you wish.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PUBLICATIONS CONTROL (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990 [NO. 2]
Debate resumed from 21 February 1990, on motion by Mr Moore:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (10.42): Mr Speaker, Mr Moore's Bill, like his supposed matter of public importance yesterday, is, in my view, an opportunistic attempt to steal the limelight. More importantly, the difference between this private member's Bill and the one that preceded it is that whilst Mr Stevenson has his own agenda, we see in Mr Moore's Bill an attempt to force the pace on the Government, to plagiarise our policy and to put his own personal image forward, as he did once with fluoride - as those of us in the Rally well know.
If we put through a Bill that has legal anomalies, as we are likely to do if we accede to this Moore proposal - I will come to that later - I can assure all members that when the national press gets going on the fact that we have created some incredible legal tangles in this city as a result of this ill-thought-out legislation, they will find, as we found on fluoride, that they will not hear a squeak from Mr Moore. He will not be there; I can assure them of that, from personal experience.
Mr Speaker, it is very important that in looking at the Bill before us today, members of this Assembly consider the implications for the reputation of self-government in putting through a Bill which has been inadequately researched and put together and which may have serious, unintended results.
I was at the Raiders game at Bruce and over the boos I had a conversation with the representative of Video Ezy, the new sponsor of the Raiders game. That gentleman told me of a couple of extraordinary meetings that he and reputable video operators, with reputable small businesses in this city and other cities in Australia, had with Mr Moore. That person warned me of the possible serious anomalies, not only in unintended legal effect but also in commercial effect.
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