Page 2934 - Week 13 - Thursday, 23 November 1989
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Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I ask that this man remove the word "defame" from his comments about me. If there is to be a defamatory conclusion, that is to be made elsewhere, not usurped by the likes of this man.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Collaery. I would again ask the Deputy Chief Minister, considering his allusion to the sub judice situation, to withdraw that statement that he made regarding the word "defamatory".
MR WHALAN: Yes, I withdraw that reference to defamation. I find it interesting that the person who defended Mr Collaery was Mr Stevenson. I look forward to the Pryor cartoon in which we see Bernard Collaery in bed with Dennis Stevenson.
Mr Humphries: You're in bed today with Rosemary Follett and Wayne Berry.
MR WHALAN: I am proud to be portrayed in the cartoon. With Wayne there cramping the style it was a bit awkward. But I look forward to the cartoon from Pryor with Mr Collaery in it. It will not be a cartoon of a film set; it will be a cartoon of a brothel.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR WHALAN: It will be a cartoon of a brothel, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Deputy Chief Minister, this is not becoming of the Assembly.
MR WHALAN: With Mr Collaery having prostituted himself - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Resume your seat, Deputy Chief Minister. You will be named if you keep this up. Please resume your seat.
Mr Collaery: This man is bringing discredit on the Assembly throughout Australia by his performance here this afternoon. I ask that he leave the chamber if he is unable to conduct himself appropriately. He is bringing shame on this Assembly once again.
MR SPEAKER: Deputy Chief Minister, I have terminated your speech on this matter.
Mr Whalan: Under what standing order, please, Mr Speaker?
MR SPEAKER: On my ruling, thank you.
Mr Whalan: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; on what standing order? There is no standing order under which you can terminate my speech.
MR SPEAKER: Please resume your seat until I take - - -
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