Page 3669 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 20 October 1993
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MR LAMONT (3.23): Madam Speaker, the utter hypocrisy and nonsense that has gone on here since question time is something of which this Assembly should be eternally ashamed. We have seen probably the most obvious act of revenge, of malice. I will stand up and defend what I said last evening about Mr Snow. It was one thing for Mr Snow to criticise the ACT Government, and particularly the Chief Minister, because the Chief Minister was not prepared to accept his words.
Mr Humphries: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker.
MR LAMONT: You raised the question, Mr Twenty-six Million Dollar Man. If you do not like the answer it is your problem.
Mr Humphries: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. We are talking about Mr Wright, not about Mr Snow, and I ask Mr Lamont therefore to be relevant.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Lamont, I believe that you will get to the point.
MR LAMONT: If the Twenty-six Million Dollar Man and his sidekick Threepence did not interject so much, I might get the opportunity to speak specifically about it. The simple fact is that in an absolutely outrageous manner Mr De Domenico and now three of his cohorts have attempted to continue to smear the name of an individual. Whether it is Charles Wright or anybody else, it is absolutely outrageous and this Assembly should not allow it to occur. Not only have they gone through with this deliberate smear campaign; they have even ensured that the name of the payee on the alleged bounced cheque has been removed. So how are we, in any test, expected to verify that? You have walked in here - - -
Mr De Domenico: Ask Mr Wright.
MR LAMONT: Why do you, Mr De Domenico, in your righteous fashion, not walk outside this Assembly - you gutless man - and say, without parliamentary privilege, the things that you have been saying here this afternoon?
Mr Humphries: You say it about George Snow and he will be in it.
MR LAMONT: Quite happily. Do you want me to walk outside and say, without parliamentary privilege, the things I said about George last night? I have said the same things in conversation to George and at public meetings too, and do you know who gets probably the most fun out of all that? George. That simply is the fact. The sleazebag way that you and your sidekick have continued to vilify this man is absolutely outrageous and something which this Assembly should be ashamed of.
Mr Humphries: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I think that to describe some member of the Assembly as a "sleazebag" - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Nobody described a member. It was "the sleazebag way", and I allow it.
Mr Humphries: Is it not unparliamentary, Madam Speaker?
MADAM SPEAKER: No, I allow it. It was not directed at a member.
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