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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (4 December) . . Page.. 4569 ..

MR WHITECROSS: I am not sure whether you think "crap" is an unparliamentary word, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: I did not hear that. If you said the word, Mr Osborne, please withdraw it, because I think it is unparliamentary.

Mr Osborne: I withdraw it, Mr Speaker; but what Mr Andrew Whitecross has gone on with for the last 10 minutes has been garbage. You should have just said what you said in two or three lines. You go on like a big sook.

MR SPEAKER: That I cannot do anything about. Order!

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, thank you. Let it stand on the record that Mr Osborne thinks that improving safety for bicyclists is garbage, but, Mr Speaker - - -

MR SPEAKER: Order! That is not the case.

Mr Osborne: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. I want Mr Whitecross to withdraw that. What I did say was that what he said was garbage. I want that to stay on the record.

MR WHITECROSS: I was debating the point you said it - - -

Mr Osborne: Are you going to withdraw that? Would you ask him to withdraw that, Mr Speaker?

MR SPEAKER: Order! Do you have a point of order, Mr Osborne?

Mr Osborne: Yes, I was misrepresented by Mr Whitecross on the issue of bike helmets.

MR WHITECROSS: I am sure that Mr Osborne can take a point of order. If he wants to explain words there is a procedure under standing order 47. At the present time he might wish to avail himself of that standing order.

Mr Osborne: Mr Whitecross said that I said something along the line that improving safety bike helmets was crap. I never said that. I would like Mr Whitecross to withdraw that imputation.

Mr Corbell: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. If Mr Osborne is concerned about something Mr Whitecross said he can make a personal explanation under standing order 46, which usually occurs at the conclusion of the debate.

Mr Moore: On the point of order, Mr Speaker: Mr Whitecross very clearly said "in conclusion". He concluded his speech and then went on further. The appropriate time for Mr Osborne to do it was at the conclusion of the speech. The hypocrisy of Mr Whitecross is that he has done the very thing that he wishes to deny to Mr Curnow.

MR WHITECROSS: No, I have not.

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