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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (30 March) . . Page.. 1083 ..

Mr Berry: I will tell you what the problem is, if you like. We do not mind giving agreement if you are specific. What we were asked to agree to this morning was that all of the speeches be incorporated. It might not sound like much, but we are serious about the agreement. That is an agreed, negotiated position. If you want to alter it, it is up to you.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Sit down!

MR HUMPHRIES: The Government's intention - I am not sure how this was transmitted - was that some speeches be incorporated in Hansard and others not.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Is leave granted for the Minister to speak on this matter?

Mr Berry: No, it is not.

MR SPEAKER: No leave was granted for you to speak earlier.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, can I say across the chamber that the Government simply wished to do what it does on many other occasions, and that is incorporate some speeches in Hansard and not others? If members do not wish to do that, that is fine. We will have to read - - -

Mr Stanhope: That is not the message that came to us.

MR HUMPHRIES: I apologise that the message was sent in the wrong way. The message ought to have been that we wanted to incorporate some of the speeches in Hansard. I apologise for having had someone else deliver the wrong message. Having said that, is it possible to seek the leave of the Opposition to have this speech incorporated in Hansard.

Mr Stanhope: Yes, it is, but I would like to clarify the misunderstanding.

MR SPEAKER: Is leave granted to Mr Stanhope to speak?

Leave granted.

MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition): We did agree to a request. The request was explicitly that all speeches be incorporated. We agreed to that. That was a negotiated position as far as we were concerned. We have a difficulty with the position being changed midstream, as we perceive it. On the basis of the Minister's explanation and apology, we are happy to agree.

MR HUMPHRIES: I ask for leave to incorporate the speech in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The speech read as follows:

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