Page 1847 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 19 August 1992
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Mr Berry: You had the opportunity to deal with it in the debate. What are you doing wasting the time of the Assembly?
MR HUMPHRIES: I am entitled to make a personal explanation under standing order 46, and I have been given leave, thank you very much.
MADAM SPEAKER: Would you please continue, Mr Humphries. You have the floor.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, pursuant to my right under standing order 46 - - -
Mr Berry: It is your right if we give it to you.
MR HUMPHRIES: No, it is not; it is the right the Speaker gives me.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order, please! Mr Humphries has the floor.
MR HUMPHRIES: Thank you, Madam Speaker. Ms Ellis made reference to the fact that I had allegedly suggested that Tuggeranong was worse off than the rest of Canberra and that my comment about individual rates of unemployment in suburbs of Tuggeranong was disgraceful. Madam Speaker, I wish to table, for the benefit of members, a copy of my media release which gave rise to that press article. I point out that nowhere in the press release have I actually said that Tuggeranong was the worst hit area for unemployment in Canberra. That was an extrapolation by the Valley View, not by me.
Mr Berry: Have you asked them to take that out?
MR HUMPHRIES: I certainly did. I certainly did say that Tuggeranong was worse off than Weston Creek, because the release was about Weston Creek and Tuggeranong only, and therefore that may have given rise to the Valley View statements. But I certainly did not make that statement. I also point out, Madam Speaker, that I feel no sense of disgrace in bringing attention to individual rates of unemployment in Canberra suburbs. The only disgrace that ought to be felt is by the Government, which has caused those levels of unemployment in ACT suburbs.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is leave granted for Mr Humphries to table those papers?
Leave granted.
1992-93 COMMONWEALTH BUDGET
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
MADAM SPEAKER: I have received letters from Mrs Carnell, Ms Ellis, Mrs Grassby and Mr Lamont - - -
Mr Kaine: All on the same subject, no doubt.
Mr Berry: Mrs Carnell was at the breakfast. She probably put the same one in.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! All the letters propose that matters of public importance be submitted to the Assembly. In accordance with standing order 79, I have determined that the matter proposed by Mr Lamont be submitted to the Assembly.
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