Page 1175 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 March 1991
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MR SPEAKER: No, you must ask the Assembly for leave to table a document, not me, under this circumstance.
Mr Berry: Well, this clarifies the issue.
MR SPEAKER: If you can get leave to table it, do so. If you cannot, you will not.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, on that basis then, I seek leave to make a personal statement under standing order 46.
MR SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented, Mr Berry?
MR BERRY: I do, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, in clarifying those outrageous statements that have been made by Mr Collaery in respect of the situation at Weston Creek, I will read into Hansard a letter that I have received.
Mr Kaine: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I think it is quite clear that Mr Berry did not receive the letter; it went to Ms Follett. He is now trying to avoid the ruling of this house and he should be instructed to sit down and stop wasting the time of this Assembly.
MR BERRY: It is a copy of a letter. Mr Collaery made allegations. What standing order are you raising that under?
Mr Kaine: I am asking the Speaker to use his authority to control this house and to stop you abusing the privilege. It is a gross abuse of the standing orders, and you know it.
MR SPEAKER: I believe that, unless that letter is directly clarifying a situation where you personally were maligned or whatever, it is not applicable. Therefore, I suggest that it is not suitable to be used under standing order 46.
MR BERRY: Mr Collaery just admitted that it was in relation to me, Mr Speaker, so - - -
Mr Collaery: Does the letter refer to "pillaging community assets"? Yes or no?
MR BERRY: Yes, it certainly does.
Mr Collaery: It does?
MR BERRY: It certainly does.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, if you hear him and it does not, we will move a motion of censure against this member.
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