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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (29 March) . . Page.. 1002 ..
MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety): Mr Speaker, under standing order 46, I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
MR SPEAKER: Proceed.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Stanhope has made a number of inaccurate statements about the issue of security cameras in his presentation speech and I will not be able to touch on all of them. These include the issue of the opposition of the Labor Party to those cameras - very clear opposition - during the first term of this Government, which was disguised as a motion of support but - - -
Mr Stanhope: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Would the Attorney-General please indicate how he has been misrepresented? He is simply debating a Bill that I have just introduced.
MR HUMPHRIES: I thought Mr Stanhope would be reluctant to go on to that issue, Mr Speaker. I am not surprised. Mr Stanhope accuses me of inaction on the question of security cameras. What the Government has done - - -
Mr Stanhope: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: The Attorney-General has done nothing for five years. He simply cannot stand up now and debate a Bill that I have just introduced.
MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order. This is a personal explanation.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Stanhope said that I had been inactive for five years on the question of security cameras, and I have had to tell Mr - - -
Mr Stanhope: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I said that, despite promises for five years, he had not introduced the trial of security cameras. He has not introduced a trial of surveillance cameras.
MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order and this is not a court of law. Sit down.
Mr Stanhope: I am simply being misquoted here.
MR SPEAKER: Sit down, otherwise I will deal with you.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, the Hansard will show that Mr Stanhope said that I had been inactive for five years and that I had done, and I quote - - -
Mr Stanhope: I said you had a penchant for inaction.
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