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seven months in this chamber. The extraordinary admission today is the most significant thing that has come out of this debate - the admission by the Australian Labor Party that it really is serious, that it would propose going to citizens' initiated referenda on a whole variety of - - -
Mrs Grassby: That is a lie!
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. There has been no admission about the Opposition benches supporting that veto, and the issue of relevance arises again.
MR SPEAKER: At the end of Mr Collaery's speech you will have a chance to claim that you have been misrepresented.
MR COLLAERY: I ask that Mrs Grassby's comment that I was a liar be withdrawn without reservation.
MR SPEAKER: Please withdraw it, Mrs Grassby.
Mrs Grassby: Mr Speaker, it was a lie. We did not say we supported voters' veto - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Grassby! If you made that comment, would you please withdraw it.
Mrs Grassby: But it is true, Mr Speaker; we did not say that.
MR SPEAKER: Please raise that later as a misrepresentation. Please do not interject
Mrs Grassby: Then I withdraw it, and I will raise the matter later.
MR COLLAERY: I have 25 seconds left, and I have probably had only two minutes out of the whole debate. The Labor Party policies on environment, which I would like the community to look at, are so threadbare that they do not - - -
Mr Berry: On a point of order; Labor Party policies are not the subject of this debate, are they?
MR SPEAKER: Please, Mr Collaery!
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, one of Labor's election promises was to provide a tonnage base subsidy for recycling operations.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Your time has expired, Mr Collaery.
MR MOORE (12.01): In replying to this debate, I had planned to deal with the issues raised by the Government. In his last four seconds, Mr Collaery took the chance to raise the issue of Labor policy with reference to a tonnage base. That was just a subterfuge, as was the business about the voters' veto. He had absolutely nothing to say
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