Page 1036 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 March 1991
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MR BERRY: The point I am trying to make is that the Minister, Mr Humphries, deliberately put together some words calculated to distort the facts as they are presented to this place. He has tried to hide behind that personal slur, which I take very personally and which has to be exposed. There are untruths being spread around this place which need to be put to rest. The fact of the matter is that I have laid before this house, time and time again, that this Government's budgets have blown out. It has failed to manage the hospital system and the Ambulance Service is in a state of collapse.
Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Whatever assertions and allegations Mr Berry has made are totally of no significance. He has not been misquoted by anybody. He is simply trying to debate the issue.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts): I seek to make a personal explanation under standing order 46, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MR HUMPHRIES: I do, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Berry has given us a very eloquent little tirade in his usual fashion. He unfortunately premises the whole comment - the entire tirade - on a misconception or mishearing of what was said. I did not say that there was no evidence of "government mismanagement". I said that there was no evidence produced by the Opposition of a blow-out in the hospital redevelopment budget. That is what I said. That is what the Hansard record will show. I stand by that comment. No evidence has been produced by the Opposition in that regard. I look forward to something being produced in due course. However, I know that it will not happen.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
SOCIAL POLICY - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Public Behaviour
Debate resumed from 12 March 1991, on motion by Mr Wood:
That the recommendations be agreed to.
MR STEFANIAK (9.23): I rise to speak in relation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy. This report of the Social Policy Committee on public behaviour was presented last year. This committee initially looked at this matter as a result of a private member's Bill that I, in fact, introduced on 28 June 1989. I note an error in the report, and that is that that particular Bill was passed on 25 July
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