Page 2155 - Week 08 - Thursday, 10 September 1992
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MADAM SPEAKER: Order, Mr Kaine! I am speaking. If you have a further point of order, Mr Humphries, I will entertain it; but you will first withdraw what you said: That Ms Follett told a lie.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I did not say that Ms Follett told a lie. May I finish, Madam Speaker?
MADAM SPEAKER: I ask you to withdraw what you said: That what Ms Follett said was a lie.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I quoted a statement and said that that statement was a lie. You, yesterday - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: I ask you to withdraw the - - -
MR HUMPHRIES: You, yesterday, in this Assembly ruled - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! I ask you to withdraw the statement that you made; that what Ms Follett said was a lie.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I did not say that what Ms Follett said was a lie. I quoted a statement and said that that was a lie. I would like to quote from your own ruling in this house yesterday. You ruled to be in order a statement from Mr Berry to this effect: "Statements like 'free up drug use' are clearly lies". What is the difference between what Mr Berry said yesterday and what I am saying today? Explain that to me, and I will withdraw.
Mr Berry: You have been ordered to withdraw.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, we are not in a position where we can debate the matter.
MR HUMPHRIES: You are being inconsistent, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: That will be a second - - -
MR HUMPHRIES: It is one rule for the Opposition and one rule for the Government.
MADAM SPEAKER: That will be a second and different point of order. On the first point of order, I have asked you to withdraw. If you wish to take the second point of order we will deal with it after you have withdrawn that particular statement.
Mr Berry: Do as you are told, Gary. Withdraw.
Mr Kaine: Take a second point of order and ask - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Fine. Withdraw the first, and then I will listen to the second.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I withdraw.
MADAM SPEAKER: Now, you are bringing to my attention the point that perhaps there has been an inconsistency in my ruling. Fine.
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