Page 2955 - Week 10 - Thursday, 16 August 1990
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Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I think Mr Berry is flouting your ruling. You have said "duplicity" is out of order. "Duplicity in the ranks of those opposite" is a very clear imputation on those sitting on this side of the chamber.
MR BERRY: I will withdraw it because the members are so twitchy. The members opposite are involved in doublespeak. Is that a bit too offensive for you? They speak with forked tongues, because the Leader of the Residents Rally said:
As the Leader of the Residents Rally, I am very pleased to say that not only have we delivered other policy matters but in this case we have delivered again.
I read into the record the Residents Rally policy. It says:
The Royal Canberra Hospital will be retained under a Residents Rally Administration.
That is the policy that he said he had won on. He had actually won on no such thing. He misled this Assembly because he had not won on the Residents Rally policy at all.
Mr Duby: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: this is irrelevant. This debate centres on the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts, not the Deputy Chief Minister.
MR BERRY: The fact of the matter is that there is a deal between - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry! Yes, please proceed to the point.
MR BERRY: There is a deal between the Residents Rally and the Minister in relation to this matter and this will be clearly demonstrated as time passes - but Mr Collaery knows it.
Mr Jensen: Where is your evidence, Wayne? Come on, put your evidence on the table. Put your evidence on the table.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Order, Mr Jensen!
MR BERRY: They are twitchy this morning, are they not?
Mr Jensen: Put your evidence on the table, you wimp.
MR BERRY: I would like that withdrawn. One thing I have never been is a wimp.
MR SPEAKER: Please withdraw it, Mr Jensen.
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