Page 692 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 5 July 1989
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Deputy Chief Minister that is quite uncalled for and is out of order.
MR COLLAERY: I withdraw the imputation, Mr Speaker.
Mr Whalan: Say it outside, comrade.
MR COLLAERY: I would not suggest that the Deputy Chief Minister who addresses me now as comrade would - - -
Mr Whalan: I called you a shit.
MR COLLAERY: Be disinterested at all.
Mr Jensen: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. I think that is totally inappropriate language for this house, and I would seek that you ask the Deputy Chief Minister to withdraw that particular word.
MR SPEAKER: Deputy Chief Minister, would you withdraw that comment, please?
Mr Whalan: Yes, I apologise for calling Mr Collaery comrade.
MR SPEAKER: Deputy Chief Minister, I believe that is not the question at hand. Language in this Assembly will be of the highest possible standard. I suggest you withdraw that reference.
Mr Whalan: Withdrawn.
MR COLLAERY: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The proposal has been put forward, as I stress again, for there to be an advertisement hopefully in this Saturday's papers to ensure that the wider community can comment. My friend and colleague Mr Berry - and he will remain my colleague because I like looking across at him and winking occasionally, although I am a bit worried about the sticker on his car - has made an implication about me which I resent. He has said: How much money did I get out of it? I presume he meant the Chinese situation. I completely reject and resent that implication, and it is not the first time that Mr Berry has come from his unionist stance to refer to money and me as a lawyer.
He should widen his horizons and make some inquiries about my law practice. I did not hear the rest of the media program this morning on the radio because my coathanger goes out of range very easily. I do not have a high-powered Fairlane radio on my Volkswagen, and I do not derive funds from those situations that Mr Berry implied, and one hopes that he will withdraw that. As well, the Hansard will show that I referred to some BWIU types who were shouting down a speech given outside as grunting.
You will see in the Hansard, Mr Speaker, that no reference at all was made to Mr Berry's delightful consort or his
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