Page 2157 - Week 08 - Thursday, 10 September 1992
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Mr Kaine: Well, let your impartiality show, Madam Speaker.
MR HUMPHRIES: Am I allowed to finish, Madam Speaker, or am I to be sat down?
MADAM SPEAKER: Continue, yes; of course.
MR HUMPHRIES: Thank you, Madam Speaker. The integrity of the chairmanship of this Assembly depends on your capacity, as the custodian of the office of Speaker - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Is this a point of order or a bit of advice, Mr Humphries? I want you to finish, please.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, my point of order is that you should immediately rule that you have made inconsistent statements and either make Mr Berry withdraw his statement from yesterday or allow my statement to stand.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Humphries. I did hear all of that the first time you told me. I will take it on notice and, once I have read the Hansard, come back. Now, where were we before the point of order? Mr Humphries, you were speaking.
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, Madam Speaker.
Mr Lamont: It is all right. They have pulled their stunt for the day. It is okay. You can sit down now.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I ask him to withdraw that statement; that it was a stunt.
MADAM SPEAKER: Under which standing order, please, Mr Humphries?
MR HUMPHRIES: It is unparliamentary, Madam Speaker.
Mr Lamont: Madam Speaker, to save further embarrassment, I will withdraw the fact that this obvious stunt is a stunt.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Lamont. He has withdrawn, Mr Humphries. Proceed.
MR HUMPHRIES: Hardly, Madam Speaker; but obviously he is from a different party from me, so he gets away with it.
Ms Follett: Madam Speaker, I take a point of order. Mr Humphries's last comment is clearly a reflection on the Chair and must be withdrawn.
MR HUMPHRIES: Of course it is a reflection on the Chair.
MADAM SPEAKER: Well, withdraw it, please.
MR HUMPHRIES: I withdraw, Madam Speaker.
Mr Kaine: You are making your point admirably, Mr Humphries.
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