Page 4500 - Week 15 - Thursday, 22 November 1990
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PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, under standing order 46, I wish to make a personal explanation.
MR SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MR MOORE: Yes, I do.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR MOORE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Deputy Chief Minister, in his answer to a question from Mrs Nolan, associated me with a document about community policing. The commentary that I have been making on the radio and have been making to the media today has nothing to do with that community policing survey. It has to do with the deals that have been made behind closed doors in negotiating for the next stage of how we are going to fund and take over the Federal Police. That is the area of concern. I believe that Mr Collaery has attempted to misrepresent - - -
Mr Collaery: Did you say that there was no consultation?
MR MOORE: I have an interjection from Mr Collaery: Did I say that there was no consultation? There has been no consultation about the issue that we are talking about - the transfer of police across to the ACT - and the deals are being done behind closed doors in the way Mr Collaery likes to do things. Mr Speaker, I request that the document that Mr Collaery read from be tabled. I presume that we just have to make a request. Would you mind tabling that document?
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General): Yes, Mr Speaker, I table a media release dated 3 August 1990 that Mr Moore obviously did not see before he alleged that we were going about this without any consultation with the community. I table the following paper:
Research results, including graphs (11), dated 3 August 1990.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
MR SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MR BERRY: I do, sir.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, during question time, in response to a question about the Melba Health Centre, Mr Humphries implied that I was in some way behind the threatened closures of community health centres. Mr Speaker, for the record, the following series of events occurred. In
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