Page 1321 - Week 05 - Thursday, 25 June 1992
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MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Berry. Thank you, Mr Humphries.
MR BERRY: Madam Speaker, what we really have to do is look at the evidence which is in front of us. Looking at pages 96 and 97 of the proof Hansard, the Liberals argue that the information contained in what looks like a quote is sufficient evidence upon which somebody could be hanged. If Mr Moore was a judge who had access to the black handkerchief he would hang him too. This is on the basis that there is something that looks like a quote from a document appearing on pages 96 and 97.
When we read the debate, Madam Speaker, we see that Mr De Domenico really hoped that Mr Lamont had that document in his hand so that he could have him table it and then, after he had found out that the document that he hoped that Mr Lamont had was in fact the document that he hoped it was, he would be able to claim that Mr Lamont had done something wrong. Well, Mr Lamont told this Assembly that he had a quote from the document on a piece of paper.
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
MR DAVID LAMONT
Motion of Censure
Debate resumed.
MR BERRY: The documents that were tabled in due course were not the documents that Mr De Domenico had hoped that they would be and therefore he was not able to claim that there was something wrong. Now, this is all very thin. At no point in the proof Hansard is there any evidence to suggest that anything wrong was done. The Liberals themselves do not believe that it is an issue worthy of a motion of censure, but they have been forced, they say, to move one.
Mr Connolly: Look at their original motion. It says "condemns". They had to cross that out in pencil.
MR BERRY: Here we are; this is the motion that was circulated. Mr De Domenico - - -
Mr De Domenico: That is not my handwriting, by the way. That is because you upped the ante. You gagged us.
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