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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 9 Hansard (21 August) . . Page.. 2674 ..

MR STANHOPE: This has nothing to do with the appeal. This has to do with the Leader of the Opposition putting out this scurrilous press release, which is actually false. We can go back to the point

Mr Humphries: It is not false. It is perfectly true. Everything in that statement is true.

MR STANHOPE: Say that again?

Mr Humphries: Everything in that statement is true.

MR STANHOPE: Do you want to repeat that for the sake of Hansard?

Mr Humphries: I think they have it, Mr Stanhope.

MR STANHOPE: Everything in this statement is definitely true, the Leader of the Opposition claims.

MR SPEAKER: Order, please! I would ask you not to proceed further, just for a moment. I have asked the Clerk to look at this matter for a moment, because I am a little worried about a matter that is before the-

Mr Humphries: There is an appeal in progress.

MR STANHOPE: I am not talking about the appeal.

Mr Humphries: We are talking about the issues which are at issue in the appeal, though.

MR SPEAKER: Would the Chief Minister-

MR STANHOPE: I am talking about the issues in your press release.

MR SPEAKER: Chief Minister, would you keep in mind that there is a matter on appeal before the courts and we should not stray at all-

MR STANHOPE: I will only talk about the events of last September and October.

MR SPEAKER: Would you just hold on a moment please, Chief Minister?

MR STANHOPE: I will talk only about those events, and the absolutely outrageous, scurrilous and false statements in this release.

MR SPEAKER: I just want to read some advice that I have. Thank you members. I reiterate what I said earlier. I urge caution in relation to your comments on the matter, because I understand it is a matter that is before the courts. Thank you.

MR STANHOPE: Yes, it certainly is, Mr Speaker, and I will be careful. This is what the Leader of the Opposition said in his press release yesterday:

"As Leader of the Opposition before the election, Jon Stanhope wrote to me as Chief Minister saying-

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