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Mr Collaery: Why suggest that I asked about it?
MS FOLLETT: I cannot comprehend Mr Collaery's attitude to this whole question, Mr Speaker. I believe he has been treated with complete honesty and forthrightness, and in those circumstances he has no idea - - -
Mr Collaery: Was that honesty on the Pru Goward program this morning?
MS FOLLETT: It was. He has no idea how to behave in those circumstances. He does not understand the concept.
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MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, since the Chief Minister is making much of honesty and openness, I would like to ask her: why was it necessary for her senior private secretary to address Mr Collaery on the issue when she did not find it necessary to address me? What was her purpose in having her senior private secretary go and advise Mr Collaery of this matter? If it is a party matter, why did she go to that trouble?
Mr Whalan: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; as this matter is sub judice, as a result of defamatory statements made on radio this morning, I submit that it is totally inappropriate for further questions to be considered on it.
MR SPEAKER: I will take advice on that matter. I request that the Deputy Chief Minister give the Assembly some proof that this matter has been presented to legal counsel.
Mr Whalan: Both Mr Berry and Mrs Grassby have issued instructions to their solicitors in relation to this matter.
Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; unless they are in relation to the particular question that I addressed to the Chief Minister - and I submit they are not - then the question that I asked the Chief Minister is not sub judice and I would like an answer to it.
MR SPEAKER: I take your point, Mr Kaine. I believe that that question, as asked by you, was not the subject of the discussion on the radio this morning. Would the Chief Minister care to answer the question.
Mr Whalan: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; did you actually hear the program on the radio this morning?
MR SPEAKER: I did, thank you, Deputy Chief Minister.
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