Page 847 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 25 July 1989
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and I suspect, Mr Speaker, he is again distorting the truth for his own ends.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, I ask you to withdraw the word "lie" used against Mr Collaery.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, with due respect, if the member is going to tell lies he has to expect to be told that he is doing so.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, Mr Kaine is becoming overexcited again. He is using his questions to say that I am telling lies.
Mr Kaine: You are.
MR COLLAERY: He is doing it again, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, please refrain from accusing Mr Collaery in your representation of what he believes is the truth. I ask you to withdraw that. Mr Collaery, I ask you to do some research because I also have seen the letters so presented, and I assume that you received them, and I believe Mr Kaine is assuming likewise. Would you please withdraw, Mr Kaine?
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I withdraw the imputation that he bends the truth.
Mr Jensen: With incredible respect, Mr Speaker, that is a qualified withdrawal, and I would suggest it is not appropriate.
MR SPEAKER: It was only a turn of phrase, Mr Jensen. There is no point of order.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I wish to clear the air. I have asked my colleague Mr Jensen when my mail arrived on this issue, but the fact remains that Mr Jensen and I were told yesterday by the Deputy Chief Minister that "Trevor and I have agreed" - or words to that effect - to a sitting schedule that neither Mr - - -
Mr Whalan: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. This does not relate to the misrepresentation. Mr Collaery is trying to save his own skin by raising this issue, which is quite irrelevant to his claims about misrepresentation. I again plead with you to call the man to order.
MR SPEAKER: Objection overruled. Mr Collaery, please get to the point.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I simply rise to say that, regardless of any correspondence flowing in this Assembly, Mr Kaine is on the same floor as I am and, if he is imputing that he consulted me or that I had the opportunity to comment on these things, he is forgetting the fact that I wrote to the Chief Minister on 11 July 1989 saying that I
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