Page 1708 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 18 May 1994
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MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I ask you to focus your comments on the motion.
MR BERRY: Thank you, Madam Speaker. This is not a hotly contested position. There are five factions you have to deal with over there when you are trying to organise anything. When it comes to this particular issue, we go then to the motions. Mr Humphries came to me today and complained that the fifth paragraph of the first motion I circulated in this place did not suit him. I had a talk to the Clerk and we reorganised it so that it did suit him, and it suited other people as well.
Mr Humphries: I did not say that at all. That is a lie.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr Humphries, I ask you to withdraw that.
Mr Humphries: Well, it is.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Humphries: He can use the word.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, when somebody says, "That is a lie", or "You are a liar", I have asked people to withdraw it every time.
Mr Humphries: So "You misled me" is okay?
MADAM SPEAKER: I will consider "You misled me" again, if you persist with that. I have no problem with reconsidering that.
Mr Humphries: Please, Madam Speaker, yes.
MADAM SPEAKER: Fine; but let us withdraw this one first.
Mr Humphries: I withdraw.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, and let me consider "misled". Continue, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: The motion that was circulated around the place was amended, in consultation with Mr Humphries, to bring it to a form that suited him. The clear impression that was given to me was that the Liberals were saying, "We will support this motion".
Mr Humphries: You are as thick as two short planks. That is your problem, Wayne Berry.
MR BERRY: No; "We will support this motion", Mr Humphries said.
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