Page 2613 - Week 12 - Thursday, 16 November 1989
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Mr Kaine: No child in poverty by 1990.
MRS GRASSBY: We will do it, too, don't you worry.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, the Minister, in the course of her speech, said that I was upset and said that we were wasting time talking about putting six million people into gas chambers. She was making a reference to the debate, I think, on Tuesday, about - - -
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I think it is appropriate to raise that after the debate has concluded.
MR HUMPHRIES: You gave me leave, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Please be brief, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: I will be brief, Mr Speaker. That is not the case. I have no hesitation in joining the Minister in condemning the atrocities of those who put six million people into gas chambers. The Minister's suggestion that I would do otherwise is quite mischievous.
Mrs Grassby: You said we were wasting time.
MR HUMPHRIES: We were wasting the time of the Assembly in pretending - - -
Mrs Grassby: That is exactly - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Let him get on with it, please, Minister Grassby.
MR HUMPHRIES: We were wasting the time of the Assembly in pretending that a debate about the fall of the Berlin Wall had anything whatsoever to do with the atrocities of the Nazis or that the fall of the Berlin Wall, as the Minister alleged, was somehow a triumph against fascism. That sort of perversion, that sort of stupidity, was what I argued against at the time.
I also want to put on record, Mr Speaker, that I do shave from time to time. This morning I took the trouble to shave the base of my beard and around the tops of my cheeks.
MR COLLAERY (11.05): I assume he also sharpens his teeth, Mr Speaker. The Residents Rally is not going to enter into an ideological battlefield between Mr Berry and the Liberal Party. Mr Berry has picked this one, so we will offer our comments. Firstly, the Rally owes its existence to a total disenchantment with the Hawke Government which flowed
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