Page 3308 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 12 October 1993
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Mr Berry: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Standing order 46 relates to personal matters. This is hardly a personal matter.
MADAM SPEAKER: I think that is correct. Mr Humphries, would you get onto the second matter, please?
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, it was I who was consulted by Senator Macdonald.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you. Would you raise your second matter now, please?
Ms Follett: I was right. I said "Mrs Carnell".
MR HUMPHRIES: Both of us have been consulted. Madam Speaker, Mr Lamont this morning, on the whiplash program on the ABC, was talking about the Estimates Committee process and made the rather surprising assertion that I personally and members of my party had not asked any questions of the Chief Minister concerning the redundancy scheme that had been put forward in the budget.
Mr Berry: This is hardly of a personal nature.
MR HUMPHRIES: I know that you do not want to hear this, but you are going to have to, Mr Berry.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Berry has a point of order, Mr Humphries. The standing order is quite specific in relation to matters of a personal nature. Would you please talk about just yourself?
MR HUMPHRIES: Certainly, Madam Speaker. It was suggested that I had not asked any questions about the voluntary redundancy scheme.
Mr Berry: If Mr Lamont had said that you do not clean your shoes, that would be a personal explanation; you could say that you do.
MR HUMPHRIES: This is very painful for him, I understand, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Continue, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I perused the Hansard of the Estimates Committee of 30 September and I found not less than 26 different questions asked by me and my colleagues concerning the so-called voluntary redundancy scheme that the Government put forward in its recent budget, on top of a series of questions asked by me and my colleagues of Mr Wood, of Mr Berry and, I think, also of Mr Connolly.
Ms Follett: Not one to the Treasurer.
MR HUMPHRIES: The Chief Minister is the Treasurer, is she not? The questions about the voluntary redundancy scheme were asked of the Chief Minister. Madam Speaker, I think that Mr Lamont deserves a special reward for his outstanding effort in misleading the public of the Territory, and I present him with this small Havana cigar as a sign of his great achievement in indicating so falsely what the situation was in the Estimates Committee.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Your personal explanation has been made.
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