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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 9 Hansard (6 September) . . Page.. 2921 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

Crimes (Forensic procedures) Bill 2000-DNA samples-Copy of transcript of Canberra 2CN radio interview with Mr Stanhope (Leader of the Opposition) on 6 September 2000, prepared by Rehame Australia Monitoring Services.

Mr Stanhope: All right, a girl ranger. Somebody down at the pensioners club conducting a meat raffle.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Settle down, all of you.

MR HUMPHRIES: Oh, it's a pensioner now, is it? First of all, Mr Speaker, let us take the pensioner.

Mr Quinlan: Take anybody.

Mr Stanhope: Take anybody over 18.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Otherwise the members of the opposition may end up with a lone ranger over there after I have dealt with the rest of you. Now just be quiet.

MR HUMPHRIES: Take Mr Stanhope's suggestion of a pensioner who is selling raffle tickets unauthorised. Sorry, Mr Stanhope, it is not an indictable offence to sell raffle tickets without proper authorisation.

Mr Stanhope: Read clause 8.

MR HUMPHRIES: I do not know what sort of lawyer you are, Mr Stanhope, but my advice from my department has been absolutely explicit. There is no way that these provisions apply other than to an indictable offence. If you do not believe-

Mr Corbell: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. The Attorney, first of all, is debating the legislation. Secondly, he is not addressing his remarks through the chair. I would ask you to call him to order on both those points.

MR SPEAKER: I am anxious that Mr Humphries answer Mr Osborne's question. I do not want a string of interjections from the Leader of the Opposition arguing legal points.

Mr Corbell: Well, who is provoking it, Mr Speaker? He is.

MR SPEAKER: No, he is answering Mr Osborne.

Mr Wood: So the minister can do it but nobody else can.

MR HUMPHRIES: In answer to Mr Osborne's question about how accurate are Mr Stanhope's comments on the radio this morning: they are totally inaccurate. They are a scare campaign. They are misleading. Mr Stanhope accused me of misleading the community today on radio.

Mr Stanhope: You did.

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