Page 3670 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 20 October 1993
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MRS GRASSBY (3.26): I think it is rather disgusting. What really makes me more disgusted about it, Madam Speaker, is the fact that Tony De Domenico said to Charles Wright that he voted against this in the party room. He said, "I voted against it". This is what he said to Charles Wright. Here he is again in this house, just trying to get into the Canberra Times and to destroy a person who is not in this house. You can say what you like about people in this house, but to destroy somebody who cannot stand up for their rights is rather disgusting, Madam Speaker. Then to go out and tell them, "I did not support it in the party room" - - -
Ms Follett: "It was not me."
MRS GRASSBY: "It was not me", he said, Madam Speaker.
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (3.27): It has just dawned on me what has been going on here. Mr De Domenico indicates that - - -
Mr Humphries: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. Mr Berry has spoken once already in this debate.
MADAM SPEAKER: No, he has not.
MR BERRY: Wrong again. You keep getting it wrong. You are a good double. Very conveniently, they have blanked out the name of the payee on the cheque so that we would not find out that it was one of the Liberal Party members opposite to whom the cheque - - -
Mr Humphries: That is rubbish. That is not true.
Mr De Domenico: Sit down, Wayne. That is rubbish.
MR BERRY: Look at the smug look on Mr Westende over there. Was it you, Lou?
Mr Westende: I can look smug because I did not lose anything. It was not made out to me, thank heavens.
MR BERRY: Well, it has to be something like that; otherwise they would not be so bitter and twisted. Why on earth are they pursuing such a vindictive course? There is no reason, except that somebody has shone out like a light in comparison with their performance. This person has been able to do things and they are doing nothing. It is the old tall poppy stuff. He is not on their team and if you are not on their team you deserve some sort of a vindictive attack. Well, I have had enough. It is just disgusting. I think this is just another demonstration of the depths to which you will stoop. I said before that you could walk upright beneath a snake's belly. I think that is true. And you have not improved; you are going backwards.
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