Page 121 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 8 April 1992
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PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MRS CARNELL: Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.
MADAM SPEAKER: You need to seek leave first.
MRS CARNELL: I seek leave.
Leave granted.
MRS CARNELL: I believe that Mr Berry, during question time, misrepresented my views about osteoporosis. He suggested that I did not bring to the notice of the community the benefits of calcium and the benefits of diet in preventing osteoporosis. Mr Berry will be very well aware that calcium does not prevent osteoporosis in a number of people, particularly people who are genetically predisposed to the condition. In the press release that I put out on the - - -
Mr Connolly: I raise a point of order. Madam Speaker, under standing order 46 a personal explanation can be made but such matters may not be debated. Mrs Carnell seems to be debating the merits or demerits of calcium and the various forms of treatment.
MRS CARNELL: Mr Berry was very personal in his attack during question time.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Carnell, if you could confine your remarks to an explanation, that would be good.
MRS CARNELL: For sure. Calcium does not prevent osteoporosis in people with genetic predisposition to the condition. My position on densitometry is that it should be made available to women who need the screening process. Those are women who cannot, for medical reasons, get oestrogen therapy, who should not use oestrogen therapy - - -
Mr Connolly: On a point of order: Madam Speaker, standing order 46 allows members to say where they were misrepresented and to get their views on the record. It expressly does not allow matters to be debated. Mrs Carnell is entitled to make her point that she feels that she was misrepresented, but she is not entitled to entertain us with a treatise on the merits or demerits of calcium.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Carnell, I would refer you to that standing order and ask you to confine your remarks to a personal explanation, please.
MRS CARNELL: Mr Berry, in his statement, made continual references to what I believed or what I had said about densitometry and about the treatment of osteoporosis. I do not really know how, without answering those comments that Mr Berry made about my opinions on osteoporosis or whatever, I can answer the question at all. Unless I can make a comment on what my position is, what can I say? That is all I am asking. I am making the comment on my position on osteoporosis and what densitometry availability in the ACT should be. Do I have leave to continue?
MADAM SPEAKER: I will listen carefully. Please proceed, Mrs Carnell.
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