Page 3368 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 18 September 1990
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MR JENSEN: That is not quite true, Mr Moore. I did participate in a briefing with the Heritage Committee. We had a briefing in relation to that. I asked questions of the officials in the same way.
Mr Humphries: He has got you between the eyes.
MR JENSEN: Right. Clearly, Mr Speaker, Mr Connolly, like his other Labor colleagues, continually seeks to misrepresent the real position.
Mrs Grassby: We were all on that committee. He has never been to our committee, ever. Never has he been to our committee and asked questions, so he is telling lies again.
MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, please, can I have some protection?
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Grassby! Please proceed, Mr Jensen.
MR JENSEN: Well, I have been told, Mr Speaker, by interjection, that I am telling lies and I request that it be withdrawn.
MR SPEAKER: Please withdraw that, Mrs Grassby.
Mrs Grassby: Mr Speaker, he said that we had never been to a committee. He has never been to any of our committees.
MR SPEAKER: Please withdraw that, Mrs Grassby.
Mrs Grassby: I withdraw it, Mr Speaker.
MR JENSEN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I accept Mrs Grassby's unqualified withdrawal. The Assembly last year was in a different form. Clearly, it was in a different form. There was a minority government. Ms Follett's Government really had no option. They had to submit to the will of this Assembly.
Mr Moore: Open government. Whatever happened to your theories on your committee system before power?
MR JENSEN: We are not talking about stopping open government, Mr Moore. You are quite welcome, Mr Moore, to come to any committee and ask questions. You are quite welcome, Mr Moore, to raise those matters. Oh dear, we are getting angry, are we, Mr Moore?
Mrs Grassby: Yes, how power grabs.
MR JENSEN: Power? There is no power over here, I can assure you.
Mr Humphries: He has that look on his face.
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