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further addition to a traffic record which I understand went for three or four pages. He did not resign. There was, moreover, not even so much as the faintest call from members of the Labor Opposition in New South Wales for that Minister to resign.
Mr Connolly: What was the offence, Gary?
MR HUMPHRIES: I have indicated already, Mr Connolly - you should have listened to what I was saying - that it was a fairly serious traffic offence. I do not know what it was. I do not have the information.
Mr Berry: Negligent driving, the same as if you run up the back of a car.
MR HUMPHRIES: It was negligent driving, I am told by my colleagues opposite. I think that is pretty analogous to a charge of failure to take a breath test.
Mr Collaery: They say negligent driving is not a serious offence. They just said it.
MR HUMPHRIES: Negligent driving is not a serious offence? I think we see something of the double standards of those opposite.
Mr Moore: And Bernard is lying to you.
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; Mr Moore just uttered from behind the pillar, "Bernard is lying again". I ask that he withdraw it.
MR SPEAKER: Please withdraw that, Mr Moore.
Mr Moore: Mr Speaker, that is not what I said, but it was similar to that, and I withdraw it.
Mr Collaery: That is a qualified withdrawal. That is what he said, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: He has withdrawn it, I believe.
Mr Moore: That is not what I said. That is a lie.
Mr Collaery: I ask that he be asked to withdraw it in an unqualified fashion, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, what did you say, please? I did not hear it.
Mr Moore: Mr Speaker, I will withdraw whatever he thinks I said. It is an unqualified withdrawal, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Moore. Please proceed, Mr Humphries.
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