Page 5081 - Week 17 - Wednesday, 12 December 1990
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MR HUMPHRIES: "Fishing" is the best word for this sort of question. It is an extraordinarily broad fish. I think he is deep sea driftnet fishing, Mr Chief Minister; that is what it is best described as. The question is extraordinarily wide. I have certainly discussed already in this house, in answer to Mr Berry's questions, some of the correspondence between me and - - -
Mr Berry: That was when you misled the house.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry! I would ask you to withdraw that.
Mr Wood: You allowed it yesterday.
MR SPEAKER: I did not allow that yesterday, Mr Wood.
Mr Berry: By the Minister's own admission; I am sorry, Mr Speaker. He admitted that he misled the house - however inadvertently he may have described his action.
MR SPEAKER: You did not withdraw the original comment, Mr Berry.
Mr Wood: He qualified it with "inadvertently".
MR SPEAKER: I know that it was qualified, and a qualified withdrawal is not acceptable.
Mr Berry: I withdraw the word "inadvertently" and I say, Mr Speaker, that he provided wrongful information to the Assembly which misled it.
MR SPEAKER: In fact, you have withdrawn the word "inadvertently", which in fact was not the word that we were looking to have withdrawn. The word to be withdrawn was "misled". So, would you withdraw the word "misled".
Mr Berry: I had done that, I thought.
MR SPEAKER No, you have not.
Mr Berry: Well, I do and - - -
MR SPEAKER: Please rise. I know that it is difficult.
Mr Berry: Yes, it is a long way, sir.
MR HUMPHRIES: The question of correspondence between me and the department and the department and the media and me and the media would cover a great many pages and I do not know what the extent of it might be. I am certainly not prepared to stand up in this place and table all that correspondence. It could be on a whole range of things of no interest or relevance to Mr Berry. He might as well ask me to table my diary and my innermost thoughts. It would certainly be more interesting than Mr Berry's questions in this house. I am not prepared to table everything ad
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