Page 2985 - Week 10 - Thursday, 16 August 1990
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MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, yesterday during the debate on the Bill designed to prevent school closures, Mr Humphries said that I had made statements that we would reopen all schools that are closed by his Government. Mr Humphries has again distorted the truth, as he quite often does.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I would ask you to withdraw that.
MR BERRY: I have not said anything.
MR SPEAKER: You said that Mr Humphries often distorts the truth. Please withdraw that.
MR BERRY: Mr Humphries has not told the truth in relation to that matter.
MR SPEAKER: Again, you must raise that as a motion against him. You cannot just say it on the floor of the house.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, everybody gets a little bit testy over these things, but Mr Humphries did not represent the facts correctly.
MR SPEAKER: I ask you to withdraw your imputation.
MR BERRY: I beg your pardon?
MR SPEAKER: I would ask you to withdraw your imputation.
MR BERRY: I have withdrawn that. Mr Humphries has not represented the facts correctly.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Yes, that is okay. Go ahead.
MR BERRY: That could be interpreted to be saying that he did not speak the truth, but we are starting to split hairs about these matters, I think. I had said that Labor, in office, would reopen all schools that could be reopened; Labor could not give a commitment to reopen schools that this Government had bulldozed; neither could Labor give a commitment, because its policy prevented it from doing so, that schools that the community opposed being reopened would reopen because of our commitment to have the community participate in any decisions in relation to schools. I hope that clarifies the matter for Mr Humphries.
MR SPEAKER: Prior to the break at lunchtime, Ms Follett asked for a withdrawal from Mr Collaery on a matter. I am reviewing the Hansard documentation, and I will report to the Assembly once that has been reviewed. It has not been completed. We worked on it over lunchtime, but we have not succeeded in completing the review. As soon as that comes to hand, I will give a judgment on that issue.
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