Page 3295 - Week 11 - Thursday, 12 September 1991
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MR DUBY: Mr Speaker, does Mr Connolly take instructions from the Labor Party branch?
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I think Mr Connolly raised a valid point of order. Mr Duby should be required to withdraw the imputation that Labor members take instructions from the liquor industry.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I would like to review the Hansard and see what Mr Duby did say and the context in which he said it. Please proceed, Mr Duby.
MR DUBY: I missed the last word of what Mr Berry said and I - - -
Mr Berry: I take a point of order. It was quite clear that Mr Duby imputed that members of this house were taking instructions from liquor interests. That is very clear.
MR SPEAKER: If that is what you said, Mr Duby, I would ask you to withdraw it.
MR DUBY: I did not hear. Are you saying that I said that you got instructions from the Labor Club? Is that it?
Mr Berry: From the Labor Club. You mentioned the Labor Club.
MR DUBY: Okay, I withdraw that imputation completely. There is no question about the fact that the Labor members do get instructions from their Labor Party branches and from the Labor Party organisation on which way to vote. If they are not under instructions, that means that today, on this issue, we will have a conscience vote, I hope. I hope that we will have a conscience vote on this matter. It is not hard to imagine, Mr Speaker, why a review of trading hours for licensed premises, why access to licensed premises and why a review of penalties under the Liquor Act, et cetera, would be of concern to those members opposite. Shall I leave it at that?
Mr Berry: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. That was a very clear imputation that members of the Labor Party were under some instructions or some liability to liquor interests in this Territory. I demand that that imputation be withdrawn.
MR DUBY: I reject that there was any imputation whatsoever. I am not implying that at all. I am simply saying that they would be very concerned with a review of trading hours for licensed premises, just like I would be.
Mr Berry: There was a clear imputation, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: I think that is drawing a long bow, if that is the intent of Mr Duby's statement. I do not think it is as pointed as you would imagine, Mr Berry, and I do not uphold your objection.
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