Page 2154 - Week 08 - Thursday, 10 September 1992
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MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a short statement on what the Chief Minister has just said.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is leave granted?
Mr Berry: No. What about, mate?
MR HUMPHRIES: About what the Chief Minister has just said. We had no notice of that; so I am not giving you notice of this, either.
Mr Berry: You asked the question yesterday.
MR HUMPHRIES: I know; and I got the wrong answer, obviously.
MADAM SPEAKER: Leave is not granted, Mr Humphries. Mr Berry said no.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I move: That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent me - - -
Mr Berry: Have your leave.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, I think leave has now been granted.
Mr Kaine: You have to twist it out of them.
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, we do. Obviously they are very sensitive about this subject.
Madam Speaker, obviously yesterday the Chief Minister gave a very short, rather ill-tempered, I thought, answer to a very good question by the Opposition. There was, it transpires, a directive issued by the ACT Government.
Ms Follett: Well, table it. I cannot find it.
MR HUMPHRIES: Again, Madam Speaker, we get murkier and murkier. A report in this morning's Canberra Times quoted extensively from a directive that has been issued on behalf of the ACT Government. Ms Follett, the Canberra Times did say that this morning. Madam Speaker, the statement that there is no directive is clearly a lie.
Ms Follett: Madam Speaker, I take a point of order. I ask that he withdraw that.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, on that point of order: You - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: We have talked about veracity before. You are not allowed to call another member of parliament a liar, or say that it is a lie. I ask you to withdraw it.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, may I address you?
MADAM SPEAKER: Only on another point of order. I am asking you to withdraw it.
Mr Kaine: You should refer to your own ruling yesterday, Madam Speaker. You cannot have it both ways.
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