Page 2123 - Week 07 - Thursday, 16 June 1994
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PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MRS CARNELL (Leader of the Opposition): I seek leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.
Mr Berry: Not another one! Did you get the other one wrong?
MRS CARNELL: No; it is a different one.
MADAM TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mrs Grassby): Proceed, Mrs Carnell.
MRS CARNELL: When the Chief Minister spoke before about my speech on her budget and about our budget strategy, she misrepresented me in a number of places. She said in her statement that under our proposal there would be no buses, that people would have to either walk or catch a cab. In my budget strategy I spoke about contracting out - - -
Mr Connolly: I raise a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is not a misrepresentation; this is debating the merits of a partisan debate. This is an extraordinary proposition.
MRS CARNELL: No, it is not at all; I am sorry. She made a comment that you would have to walk or catch a cab. In my speech I said that we were contracting out buses.
MADAM TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: No; I think you are debating.
MRS CARNELL: I certainly am not; I am sorry.
Mr Humphries: On the point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker: Ms Follett accused the Leader of the Opposition of making people walk. It is a fairly severe kind of accusation, and I think she is entitled under standing order 46 to make a response to that wild accusation.
Mr Berry: On the point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker: Mr Humphries has made the point that Mrs Carnell was responding to an accusation. Of course, she is not entitled to do that.
MRS CARNELL: No, I am not. You are just misrepresenting what I said.
Mr Berry: No. Pursuant to standing order 46, having obtained leave from the chair, a member may explain matters of a personal nature. This is hardly a matter of a personal nature.
MRS CARNELL: It is. Ms Follett personally misrepresented me.
MADAM TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just a moment, Mrs Carnell. I would like to hear what Mr Berry has to say.
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