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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 4726 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

I believe that those opposite are an absolute disgrace. If every time a member of this Assembly has a car accident - and it happens - they are required to stand up in this place, not for the police, with whom I have cooperated, and basically make this place some sort of kangaroo court, I think the people of Canberra are not being well served by those opposite. The people of Canberra require of us a capacity to legislate, to make decisions, and to create a climate where our kids can get jobs and where we can get this economy back on track. Mr Speaker, unless those opposite believe the police are unable to investigate this routine traffic accident appropriately, you have to ask what they are doing. Maybe they do believe the police are not competent to do this. Personally, I believe that the approach that the police took and that the ambulance officers took was exactly what I would expect, namely, very professional, very capable and civil. They did not treat me, and will not treat me, any differently from any other citizen of either New South Wales or the ACT.

MR WHITECROSS: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. I notice that the Chief Minister did not mention leadership or set any example. Chief Minister, can you confirm that health authorities, including the ACT Government, advise women that the maximum amount that they can drink safely if they are driving is no more than one 100-millilitre glass of wine in the first hour and no more than one 100-millilitre glass of wine each hour after that?

Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I take a point of order.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MR WHITECROSS: Chief Minister, can you assure the Assembly that you complied with this advice?

MR SPEAKER: Sit down, Mr Whitecross. A point of order is being taken.

Mr Humphries: There is no point of order about a question being grubby, and distasteful, and snide, and sneaky; so I cannot take that point of order. But I can take a point of order about the question - - -

MR WHITECROSS: Factual.

Mr Corbell: What is the point of order?

MR SPEAKER: Order! The question is also irrelevant.

Mr Humphries: Indeed. The question that has been raised is irrelevant to the first part of the question. She was asked to explain the circumstances - - -

MR SPEAKER: I uphold the point of order.

Mr Corbell: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Yes.

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