Page 4161 - Week 14 - Thursday, 25 October 1990
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MS FOLLETT: I did.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Collaery, she did, and you are sensitive about it.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I would like to continue with my remarks and to address even further the reasons why the Government is so desperate to adopt this diversionary tactic. In this Assembly this week we have had the Chief Minister caught making a totally untrue statement in regard to the Speaker. His expression "Mr ex-Speaker" - - -
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order. I ask Ms Follett to withdraw the assertion that Mr Kaine made a false statement.
MS FOLLETT: He admitted it.
MR SPEAKER: Order! You can raise it as a substantive motion if you wish to proceed on that point, Ms Follett; otherwise, withdraw it.
MS FOLLETT: I withdraw it, Mr Speaker, but there is no doubt that Mr Kaine later had to do a total back-flip from his remarks about you. It was somewhat embarrassing. Furthermore, the Chief Minister has been caught in a public dispute on the question of the statistics on bankruptcy.
Mr Jensen: Mr Speaker, I thought we were debating the issue of Mr Berry misleading the house. I have yet to hear Ms Follett offer one word of defence for Mr Berry. I would suggest that she stick to the debate.
MR SPEAKER: Please draw your remarks to that point, Ms Follett.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I am speaking to the question of censure of a member of this Assembly. That is the substantial side of the motion.
Mr Humphries: No, Mr Berry.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MS FOLLETT: I believe that I am relevant. I think that the Government has got itself even further into total disarray over the Chief Minister's public spat with the Registrar in Bankruptcy. It is not a very edifying spectacle. And, of course, today we have the revelation of the Minister for Finance bouncing cheques. I am not going to comment publicly on that, but I bet they are terrified that I will.
Mr Collaery: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. This Leader of the Opposition referred to the Minister for Finance bouncing cheques - plural.
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