Page 2065 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 8 September 1992
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Madam Speaker, I will express my concern and outrage whenever I believe that concern and outrage ought to be expressed - and I have already done that, by the way. I have already done that in no uncertain terms.
Mr Berry: You said that you wouldn't.
MR DE DOMENICO: No, I did not say that. Madam Speaker, Mr Berry - and this is why I am standing for a personal explanation - tends to believe what he reads in newspapers. Mr Berry said that I said that I would not say anything. That is not right, Mr Berry. You did not hear all the interview, Mr Berry. You heard only little snippets that were played back by the various television stations. So you do not know what I said, and you are not in a position to tell me what I said because you do not know, which is not unusual. I am appalled. But, notwithstanding all that, I will be going to South Africa, Madam Speaker, because - - -
Mr Berry: It is a bit hard to rationalise.
MR DE DOMENICO: No. I will tell you how I rationalise it. Whilst you stand up here and pontificate about what you believe is happening in South Africa, you have never been there; you are never likely to be there - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Would you please address your remarks to the Chair and make a personal explanation.
MR DE DOMENICO: I apologise, Madam Speaker. Hopefully, I will find out at first hand from the people being affected by all these things. I will be speaking to people from the Pan-African Congress, the Inkatha Movement, the Government, the Communist Party and every other political group that I can meet to get first-hand knowledge. Madam Speaker, that is my personal explanation. Mr Berry should not be trying to score petty political points.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 9.39 pm
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