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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 4703 ..

MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, Mr Humphries's assertion is that Mr Connolly and I have a different view on his approach to drink-driving laws. I am about to set the record straight.

Mr Kaine: Mr Connolly's view is not a matter for your personal explanation.

MR SPEAKER: No, but if you restrict yourself to a personal explanation, Ms Follett, you will be within the standing orders. We cannot let you drift into what Mr Connolly may or may not be thinking.

MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I can understand Mr Humphries being a bit embarrassed about this. Mr Humphries, on 12 December 1995, made a statement to this Assembly about liquor enforcement issues, a statement which took some 45 minutes. That statement canvassed just about every possible issue to do with law enforcement and liquor. It went into some detail about the community safety aspects and about Operation RAID. It discussed, very briefly, a three-tier offence structure. It talked about the Government's broken election commitment in scrapping the Nightrider bus service. It talked about the Manuka by Night report. It talked about - - -

MR SPEAKER: Explain matters of a personal nature, Ms Follett.

MS FOLLETT: I am. Mr Speaker, that statement went on to announce the addition of six police to the beat squad in Civic and Manuka. It discussed the responsible serving of alcohol - - -

MR SPEAKER: Order! Ms Follett, I grant indulgence in relation to personal explanations, and I am about to withdraw it if you do not come to the point.

MS FOLLETT: I am, Mr Speaker. My point, Mr Speaker, is that - - -

Mr Kaine: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Would you ask the lady to sit down. Talk about lack of courtesy and censorship! The manners in this place are sometimes appalling, Mr Speaker.

Ms Follett: On that point of order - - -

MR SPEAKER: Sit down, Ms Follett.

Ms Follett: If Mr Kaine is accusing me of appalling manners - - -

MR SPEAKER: I will not entertain your point of order.

Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, there was a question before about whether in seeking to make a personal explanation the member could quote Mr Connolly, and I think you ruled against that. Ms Follett has now spent some minutes outlining what Mr Humphries said. I cannot see how on earth that can possibly have anything to do with a personal explanation from the member. She is totally out of order.

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