Page 730 - Week 03 - Thursday, 21 May 1992
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PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport): I seek leave to make a short statement under standing order 46.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: Thank you. There has been a lot of froth and bubble today, particularly from the Liberals, over concerns that they or an individual, Mrs Carnell in particular, may have been accused of being a racist. They have drawn - - -
Mrs Carnell: What is this? This is your personal explanation.
MR BERRY: Well, you made the accusation.
Mr Westende: No, you made the accusation.
Mr De Domenico: You made the accusation.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! It is for me to rule, and I rule that he is making a personal statement. Let him proceed.
MR BERRY: Madam Speaker, I made no accusation that Mrs Carnell was a racist. If she or any of the Liberals feel that I have imputed so, then I withdraw any imputation - and I think that ought to be the end of the matter.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Legislative Program
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (3.35): To pre-empt some howling from the Liberals which I can hear coming - I can just see the press release being written about the lack of business - I was interested to see in the report of the Assembly, just tabled, that during the period of Mr Kaine's Government the Assembly managed to pass 1.38 Bills per sitting day; yet during the last six-day period this Labor Government, we having just dealt with the Advance Bank Bill, has dealt with some 24 pieces of legislation. In fact, we have been passing four laws per sitting day.
Mr Humphries: Some of it half-baked, I might add, on your own admission.
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