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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (28 June) . . Page.. 2161 ..
MR BERRY (continuing):
and may be required to be withdrawn on the basis that they were offensive or imputed improper motives to members of the Assembly.
Would Mr Humphries agree to that? That completes the picture.
MR SPEAKER
: Order, please! I am tired of debate across the chamber. Is that a rhetorical question? I think it is. I will allow Mr Humphries in due course to answer it. In the meantime, finish what you are saying.Mr Humphries
: Can I make a point of order first, though, Mr Speaker? Mr Berry has again read into the record the very words which I have asked on several occasions to be withdrawn, so I ask for them to be withdrawn.MR SPEAKER
: Withdraw it.MR BERRY
: Okay, Mr Humphries, I will withdraw it. I will move another amendment to include those words in Mr Humphries' amendment. How would that go down? Would that be allowable?MR SPEAKER
: He just asked you to withdraw those very words. I am tired of this game.MR BERRY
: I know you are tired of it, Mr Speaker. So am I.MR SPEAKER
: We have a great deal of work to do.MR BERRY
: Day after day you tell us that if we want to do anything we have to do it by way of a substantive amendment. I suggest that course and you say you are tired of it. Make up your mind.MR SPEAKER
: Move your amendment.Mr Humphries
: I will oppose it, but you can do it.MR BERRY
: Mr Speaker, I am happy to move an amendment along those lines if I can get enough time to do it.Mr Humphries
: You have had all lunchtime, Wayne.MR SPEAKER
: You have had most of the day on this debate.MR BERRY
: I say that, Mr Speaker, because I think that would be an appropriate course to take. I suspect there might be another couple of speakers in relation to these amendments.Mr Humphries
: Not from this side of the house. We did agree that we would do the appropriation bill this afternoon, Wayne, so when are we going to do it?MR BERRY
: I am going to be a bit pressed for time. You can move to adjourn it if you like.
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