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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (13 May) . . Page.. 1269 ..

MR SPEAKER: Why are you on your feet?

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.

MR SPEAKER: Proceed.

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, in the course of Mrs Carnell's diatribe, not all of which I can answer, because I am not allowed to debate things, she suggested that I had made claims about projections for employment and unemployment out of my own head. Those projections - that is, a fall in employment of 0.5 per cent in the next financial year and an unemployment rate of 9.2 per cent in the next financial year - came out of the Access Economics Budget Monitor, not out of my head as Mrs Carnell claimed. I seek leave to table the document.

Leave granted.

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a statement pursuant to standing order 47.

MR SPEAKER: Proceed.

MR BERRY: Mrs Carnell, in her wind-up of the in-principle stage, accused me of making certain remarks about superannuation which I did not make. Mrs Carnell has confused the issue with a press release that I put out under the heading "Carnell Gets It Wrong Again!". It reads as follows:

Chief Minister Kate Carnell has once again used misinformation -

Mrs Carnell: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order. Is this a personal explanation?

MR SPEAKER: Is this a personal explanation?

MR BERRY: No; this is a statement pursuant to standing order 47.

MR SPEAKER: Standing order 47 states that a member may again be heard to explain where some material part of that member's speech has been misquoted or misunderstood. Proceed.

MR BERRY: The press release states:

Chief Minister Kate Carnell has once again used misinformation to try to get out of criticism of her policies ...

Yesterday Kate Carnell was blaming unions because her policies had led to scarce jobs going interstate.

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