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Mr Hawke's comments could be considered inaccurate ...
Of course they were. They were not accurate; they were totally misleading. Professor Pearce considered them inaccurate and then said:
... but at that sort of gathering a little flattering hyperbole relating to ACTTAB's position was understandable.
That means to me that it is okay for a former Prime Minister to come to town and make any misleading statement he wants to everybody just because he happens to be a former Prime Minister; that we can accept that, notwithstanding the fact that he has misled the people of the ACT, misled the ACTTAB board and misled this Government. No, this Government came in hook, line and sinker. Let us get back to Mr Bartholomew.
Ms Follett: Tell us about the Chung Corporation.
MR DE DOMENICO: I am glad that the Chief Minister interrupts. "Tell us about the Chung Corporation", says the Chief Minister. As soon as the Victorian Government got to know about the Chung Corporation it cut away the deal with Vanuatu and Mr Chung.
Ms Follett: That is because they were crooks.
MR DE DOMENICO: Right; that is because they were crooks. That is what the Chief Minister said. Chief Minister, Mr Bartholomew was a crook as well.
Ms Follett: Not so. Read the report.
MR DE DOMENICO: Not so? Let me read what the Victorian Police Minister had to say.
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Here we go again; blackening everybody that one can lay their tongue to. I would ask you to caution Mr De Domenico. None of these people are going to be able to defend themselves. Just go out onto the tarmac and do it.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Berry, privilege allows Mr De Domenico to continue, although presumably some people will exercise their citizen's right of reply. Please continue, Mr De Domenico.
MR DE DOMENICO: I note your point. Thank you, Madam Speaker. I will quote from the Victorian Hansard, Madam Speaker, because the comment was made by the Chief Minister. I will answer that interjection as well. Mr Reynolds said:
One of the people connected with VITAB, Peter Bartholomew, was named in the Costigan royal commission -
that is public knowledge -
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