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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 3707 ..

Mr Berry: Mr Moore admits that he has taken the money. He has even declared it.

MR SPEAKER: You be quite too, Mr Berry, please.

MR STANHOPE: We know he took the dough, so I will withdraw "hypocrite".

Mr Moore: You took millions of dollars.

MR SPEAKER: Careful, Mr Moore, please.

MR STANHOPE: No, we did not take millions of dollars. As an organisation, we had the energy and the commitment and the support of the community to form a club. That is what we did. You are so sorry and so jealous that you did not have the energy, the commitment, the capacity or the wit to do it. That is what it is all about. Here we are down the track so disturbed by the fact that the Labor Party made a success of it that you have resorted to this tawdry device to try to create a political advantage for yourselves and your supporters in this place. When I say "you", of course I include Mr Moore, because we all know that is where he is - PG Moore, political genius, the brains trust of the Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business. Goodness me!

Mr Humphries: Can we have a bit less invective and a bit more debate and argument rather than this mud slinging?

MR STANHOPE: For sure, yes! Your hands are as clean as the driven snow over there I see, Mr Humphries.

Mr Humphries: We can have a few arguments in the debate rather than just calling people names.

MR STANHOPE: There have been no arguments from you, just absolute nonsense.

MR SPEAKER: Order please! I do not want argy - bargy across the chamber, thank you.

MR STANHOPE: If you do not know what it is you are doing, we know what it is you are doing and so will the Canberra community. It is an appalling unprincipled act that you have perpetrated here, designed simply to achieve a political outcome. It has nothing to do with clubs, nothing to do with donations for charity, nothing to do with supporting the community sector. It is all about undermining the Labor Party. It is appalling grubby, tawdry politics.

Mr Berry: You do not even know what this stuff means.

MR STANHOPE: That is right. You do not even know what it means and what the implications are. It is appalling.

Motion (by Mr Berry ) put:

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