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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 6 Hansard (23 May) . . Page.. 1599 ..

Mr Humphries: Imputations.

MR SPEAKER: Just a moment. I wish to hear the point of order.

Mr Humphries: Mr Corbell has indicated that on Thursday he proposes to move-if you don't mind, Wayne.

Mr Berry: I am just raising a point of order. Mr Corbell was given unconditional leave.

MR SPEAKER: Sit down, please. I am listening to a point of order.

Mr Humphries: You don't have leave to breach standing orders. Standing orders still apply and the standing orders say you cannot make imputations about other members.

MR CORBELL: What standing order have I breached? What imputation have I made?

Mr Humphries: The standing order that says you cannot make imputations about other members. Standing order 55.

MR CORBELL: What imputation have I made?

MR SPEAKER: Order, please! May I have your point of order, minister?

Mr Humphries: The imputation, Mr Speaker, is that Mr Smyth has committed something which could constitute a contempt of the Assembly.

Mr Stanhope: He did not do that at all.

MR CORBELL: I did not do that.

Mr Humphries: He just said it is a very serious matter which happened-he did not say it could have happened or was alleged to have happened-in the urban services committee hearings.

MR CORBELL: No, I said "alleged". This is not a point of order, Mr Speaker. The minister is misrepresenting entirely what I say. This is a frivolous point of order and you should sit him down.

Mr Humphries: I have not finished the point of order yet. If I could finish the point of order, Mr Speaker: the generally accepted precedent in this place is that if allegations are going to be made about a particular member that has to be done by way of a substantive motion. Mr Corbell has foreshadowed a substantive motion on this coming Thursday, in effect, in which such allegations can, it seems to me quite fairly, be raised. I accept that he is going to move that motion on Thursday, but making the allegations in the meantime, airing them in the meantime, is in breach of standing order 55. It should not be permitted.

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