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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (4 November) . . Page.. 3561 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

ones where agreements were signed, Madam Deputy Speaker: Heads of Government Meeting, Canberra, 11 May 1992, Rosemary Follett; COAG, Perth, 7 December 1992, Rosemary Follett; COAG, Melbourne, 8 and 9 June 1993, Rosemary Follett; COAG, Hobart - - -

Mr Berry: What does this prove? So, agreements are signed there.

MRS CARNELL: I am reading you where they were signed. You said in your speech that I had signed these ones that the Assembly had no input into. No. Wrong, wrong! The one who signed them was Rosemary Follett. Anyway, the list continues: COAG, Hobart, 25 February 1994; COAG, Darwin, 19 August 1994; and, Madam Deputy Speaker, one meeting that I was part of which was one at which no agreement was signed was the Leaders Forum in Adelaide on 12 April 1996, with regard to electricity.

We now go to gas. The agreements in relation to the achievement of free and fair trade in natural gas were made at the following meetings: COAG, Perth, 7 December 1992, Rosemary Follett; COAG, Melbourne, 8 to 9 June 1993, Rosemary Follett; COAG, Hobart, 25 February 1994, Rosemary Follett; and one for me, COAG, Canberra, 14 June 1996. There were three for Rosemary. Here we go with water. Agreements in relation to water research policy were made at the following meetings: COAG, Perth, 7 December 1992, Rosemary Follett; COAG, Melbourne, 8 to 9 June 1993, Rosemary Follett; COAG, Hobart, 25 February 1994, Rosemary Follett; and one for me, COAG, Canberra, 11 April 1995, all of a couple of weeks after we came to government.

Madam Deputy Speaker, those are when the agreements that have produced the legislation that we have on the table now, that we passed in this Assembly and that, I suspect, we are about to debate again, were actually negotiated and signed.

Mr Berry: The legislation was not. You produced the legislation.

MRS CARNELL: Madam Deputy Speaker, Mr Berry, unfortunately, is misleading the Assembly here. It would be a very good idea if he did not, because - - -

Mr Corbell: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker: The Chief Minister knows very well that, if she wants to accuse a member of misleading the Assembly, there are appropriate forms for doing that.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: That is right.

MRS CARNELL: That is very true, and I am very happy to do that. Mr Berry, would you like to repeat that?

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: No, Mrs Carnell. You have impugned Mr Berry's reputation. You must withdraw that and reword it.

MRS CARNELL: Or you will take the appropriate action. If what he said - - -

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