❓ Premier Gallop avoids directly answering whether he's aware of Hon Norman Moore's claims, instead criticising Moore's use of unnamed sources for legal advice regarding the Ningaloo decision and questioning his accountability.
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Is the Premier aware of the latest claims by the opposition spokesperson on state development, Hon Norman Moore, that he received legal advice criticising the Ningaloo decision over the telephone from friends whom he is yet to identify? Dr G.I. GALLOP
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Yesterday evening as I was tuning in to watch the Channel 10 news I unfortunately arrived a little early and The Bold and the Beautiful was on, as it always is before the news. The program showed yet more meaningful looks from very pained people caught up in distressed personal relationships. Having been a devotee over many years of Days of Our Lives I thought that it was perhaps better that I move on. I turned the dial and arrived at a brilliant program called the Legislative Council of Western Australia. On that television program appeared Hon Norman Moore. This very sensitive member was making an outburst about an important issue of accountability, which is an issue that I have raised. The Leader of the Opposition has failed to accept his responsibilities as a political leader on this issue in relation to one of his shadow ministers. What we heard from a very sensitive member was quite interesting. He indicated to the Parliament that the legal advice - I will come to the definition of “legal advice” in a moment - was given to him over the phone by friends, and that he had transcribed this legal advice and used it in Parliament. Interestingly, as the speech went on, what the member had originally called legal advice had become by the end of his speech a legal situation. On 18 September he began by calling it legal advice. It then became a legal opinion and then a legal view. By the end of his speech yesterday he was describing it as a legal situation. This is a simple matter. A shadow minister working within the Parliament of Western Australia claimed in the upper House on 18 September this year that he had legal advice that undermined the position of the Government of Western Australia. He still will not reveal where that advice came from. Mr C.J. Barnett: Why should he? Dr G.I. GALLOP: Because he is accountable. I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition is aware of the fact that we are now living in an age of disclosure. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Yesterday evening as I was tuning in to watch the Channel 10 news I unfortunately arrived a little early and The Bold and the Beautiful was on, as it always is before the news. The program showed yet more meaningful looks from very pained people caught up in distressed personal relationships. Having been a devotee over many years of Days of Our Lives I thought that it was perhaps better that I move on. I turned the dial and arrived at a brilliant program called the Legislative Council of Western Australia. On that television program appeared Hon Norman Moore. This very sensitive member was making an outburst about an important issue of accountability, which is an issue that I have raised. The Leader of the Opposition has failed to accept his responsibilities as a political leader on this issue in relation to one of his shadow ministers. What we heard from a very sensitive member was quite interesting. He indicated to the Parliament that the legal advice - I will come to the definition of “legal advice” in a moment - was given to him over the phone by friends, and that he had transcribed this legal advice and used it in Parliament. Interestingly, as the speech went on, what the member had originally called legal advice had become by the end of his speech a legal situation. On 18 September he began by calling it legal advice. It then became a legal opinion and then a legal view. By the end of his speech yesterday he was describing it as a legal situation. This is a simple matter. A shadow minister working within the Parliament of Western Australia claimed in the upper House on 18 September this year that he had legal advice that undermined the position of the Government of Western Australia. He still will not reveal where that advice came from. Mr C.J. Barnett: Why should he? Dr G.I. GALLOP: Because he is accountable. I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition is aware of the fact that we are now living in an age of disclosure. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Yesterday evening as I was tuning in to watch the Channel 10 news I unfortunately arrived a little early and The Bold and the Beautiful was on, as it always is before the news. The program showed yet more meaningful looks from very pained people caught up in distressed personal relationships. Having been a devotee over many years of Days of Our Lives I thought that it was perhaps better that I move on. I turned the dial and arrived at a brilliant program called the Legislative Council of Western Australia. On that television program appeared Hon Norman Moore. This very sensitive member was making an outburst about an important issue of accountability, which is an issue that I have raised. The Leader of the Opposition has failed to accept his responsibilities as a political leader on this issue in relation to one of his shadow ministers. What we heard from a very sensitive member was quite interesting. He indicated to the Parliament that the legal advice - I will come to the definition of “legal advice” in a moment - was given to him over the phone by friends, and that he had transcribed this legal advice and used it in Parliament. Interestingly, as the speech went on, what the member had originally called legal advice had become by the end of his speech a legal situation. On 18 September he began by calling it legal advice. It then became a legal opinion and then a legal view. By the end of his speech yesterday he was describing it as a legal situation. This is a simple matter. A shadow minister working within the Parliament of Western Australia claimed in the upper House on 18 September this year that he had legal advice that undermined the position of the Government of Western Australia. He still will not reveal where that advice came from. Mr C.J. Barnett: Why should he? Dr G.I. GALLOP: Because he is accountable. I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition is aware of the fact that we are now living in an age of disclosure. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Why should he? Dr G.I. GALLOP: Because he is accountable. I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition is aware of the fact that we are now living in an age of disclosure. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: Because he is accountable. I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition is aware of the fact that we are now living in an age of disclosure. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Yesterday evening as I was tuning in to watch the Channel 10 news I unfortunately arrived a little early and The Bold and the Beautiful was on, as it always is before the news. The program showed yet more meaningful looks from very pained people caught up in distressed personal relationships. Having been a devotee over many years of Days of Our Lives I thought that it was perhaps better that I move on. I turned the dial and arrived at a brilliant program called the Legislative Council of Western Australia. On that television program appeared Hon Norman Moore. This very sensitive member was making an outburst about an important issue of accountability, which is an issue that I have raised. The Leader of the Opposition has failed to accept his responsibilities as a political leader on this issue in relation to one of his shadow ministers. What we heard from a very sensitive member was quite interesting. He indicated to the Parliament that the legal advice - I will come to the definition of “legal advice” in a moment - was given to him over the phone by friends, and that he had transcribed this legal advice and used it in Parliament. Interestingly, as the speech went on, what the member had originally called legal advice had become by the end of his speech a legal situation. On 18 September he began by calling it legal advice. It then became a legal opinion and then a legal view. By the end of his speech yesterday he was describing it as a legal situation. This is a simple matter. A shadow minister working within the Parliament of Western Australia claimed in the upper House on 18 September this year that he had legal advice that undermined the position of the Government of Western Australia. He still will not reveal where that advice came from. Mr C.J. Barnett: Why should he? Dr G.I. GALLOP: Because he is accountable. I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition is aware of the fact that we are now living in an age of disclosure. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Yesterday evening as I was tuning in to watch the Channel 10 news I unfortunately arrived a little early and The Bold and the Beautiful was on, as it always is before the news. The program showed yet more meaningful looks from very pained people caught up in distressed personal relationships. Having been a devotee over many years of Days of Our Lives I thought that it was perhaps better that I move on. I turned the dial and arrived at a brilliant program called the Legislative Council of Western Australia. On that television program appeared Hon Norman Moore. This very sensitive member was making an outburst about an important issue of accountability, which is an issue that I have raised. The Leader of the Opposition has failed to accept his responsibilities as a political leader on this issue in relation to one of his shadow ministers. What we heard from a very sensitive member was quite interesting. He indicated to the Parliament that the legal advice - I will come to the definition of “legal advice” in a moment - was given to him over the phone by friends, and that he had transcribed this legal advice and used it in Parliament. Interestingly, as the speech went on, what the member had originally called legal advice had become by the end of his speech a legal situation. On 18 September he began by calling it legal advice. It then became a legal opinion and then a legal view. By the end of his speech yesterday he was describing it as a legal situation. This is a simple matter. A shadow minister working within the Parliament of Western Australia claimed in the upper House on 18 September this year that he had legal advice that undermined the position of the Government of Western Australia. He still will not reveal where that advice came from. Mr C.J. Barnett: Why should he? Dr G.I. GALLOP: Because he is accountable. I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition is aware of the fact that we are now living in an age of disclosure. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Why should he? Dr G.I. GALLOP: Because he is accountable. I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition is aware of the fact that we are now living in an age of disclosure. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: Because he is accountable. I am not sure whether the Leader of the Opposition is aware of the fact that we are now living in an age of disclosure. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Mr R.F. Johnson: How can you say that with a straight face? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: This Government, more than any other in this State’s history, has been open and accountable. Either it is not legal advice, in which case the member is guilty of misleading the Parliament and the people, or he has something to hide about this so-called legal situation. I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
I turn to an article published in The Northern Guardian, which states - CORAL Coast Marina development chief executive Alan Smith said the company’s lawyers were the source of legal information that Upper House member Norman Moore recently used to question the validity of the Government’s Maud’s Landing Decision. Apparently, Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd has subsequently said that that is not the case. However, this newspaper has never retracted the position put by its journalist on this issue. The question to ask is who are the friends of the Liberal Party who provided the so-called legal advice to Hon Norman Moore that he has been using in his campaign to overturn a decision that is protecting the Ningaloo Marine Park and the Ningaloo Reef. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who the friends of the Liberal Party are. The people of Western Australia need to know. Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett: There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: It is interesting. Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett: I can’t believe this! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I know that the Leader of the Opposition cannot believe this, because he does not understand the term “open and accountable”. The Government will continue to pursue this issue on behalf of the people of Western Australia until Hon Norman Moore is truly accountable for what he has been doing in this political debate. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Kalgoorlie and the member for Nedlands to order.
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