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MR SPEAKER: Order! Members must be aware that if you have the proof you present it as a substantive motion.

Mrs Grassby: We did; we presented it.

MR SPEAKER: You cannot move it across the floor.

MR BERRY: You are interrupting my speech, Mr Speaker, deliberately to focus - - -

MR SPEAKER: Order! Sit down, please. Resume your seat, Mr Berry. I am addressing Mrs Grassby.

Mrs Grassby: I apologise.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Mr Berry, you may now proceed.

Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Mrs Grassby said - - -

Mrs Grassby: I withdraw.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Please proceed, Mr Berry.

MR BERRY: The fact is that the Chief Minister peddled in this place statements which were not consistent with the record, and it has been shown so. I heard the record, and the Chief Minister, dishonestly in my view, denied that.

Mr Humphries: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: No, Mr Berry has withdrawn, so I will - - -

Mr Berry: No, I have not withdrawn that last part.

Mrs Grassby: No, he has finished. He has not withdrawn; he has finished. He is not withdrawing.

Mr Jensen: No, he did not withdraw, Mr Speaker. On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I believe Mr Berry should withdraw his last statement.

MR SPEAKER: Order! I have lost the thread of what Mr Berry said, but I think he was permitted to proceed with the words that he used.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Assembly adjourned at 5.12 pm until Tuesday, 23 October 1990, at 2.30 pm

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