Page 4729 - Week 15 - Thursday, 16 December 1993
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Mr Kaine: Madam Speaker, that is not a withdrawal. He said that I was rabble and I want him to withdraw it. I ask you to require him to do so - not make a conditional withdrawal.
MR LAMONT: Mr Kaine could not be described as rabble, Madam Speaker, so obviously I was not referring to him.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you; so you have withdrawn.
Mr Cornwell: Madam Speaker, I take a point of order. I take objection to being called rabble and I ask Mr Lamont to withdraw.
MR LAMONT: As they will do it in turn, if there has been any imputation on the people across the room, I would withdraw it, Madam Speaker. My question is directed to the Deputy Chief Minister in his capacity as Minister for Sport. Could the Minister inform the Assembly as to the outcomes of the inaugural meeting of the ACT Olympic 2000 Committee?
MR BERRY: The members of the Opposition and the Independents have been champing at the bit to ask me a question all day, but they have been so preoccupied with the electoral - - -
Mr Moore: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Standing order 118 says:
The answer to a question without notice:
(a) shall be concise and confined to the subject matter of the question;
... ... ...
Can you please keep Mr Berry to that?
MR BERRY: It will be, and Mr Moore is right in raising that matter.
Mr Kaine: After a lengthy preamble, of course.
MR BERRY: There is no restriction on preambles.
Mr Humphries: Oh, yes, there is.
MR BERRY: Not in the standing order. You do not have much regard for the standing orders, Mr Humphries.
Mr Moore: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. I draw your attention to the continuation of standing order 118 which allows the Speaker to direct a member to terminate the answer if these provisions are being contravened.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you very much for pointing that out to me, Mr Moore. If the house ever allows Mr Berry to answer the question, I may be able to listen and to determine whether it is concise or not. Continue, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: Mr Moore is worried that I will say things like 80 per cent of the electorate - - -
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