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MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry; that is not a supplementary question.
MR BERRY: The supplementary question is: Does Mr Kaine have the same confidence in the strength of his leadership as his Federal leader, Mr Peacock, and can we expect - - -
Mr Duby: On a point of order; Mr Speaker, you have decreed that this is not a supplementary question.
MR SPEAKER: I assumed he was going to get to the point. I would put it to you, Mr Berry, that that is not a question asked about the original question.
MR BERRY: Well, it will be if I get to finish it.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, with your indulgence, although it is not a supplementary question, I am quite happy to answer it.
MR BERRY: I have not finished it yet. Can we expect, therefore, that the Chief Minister might discipline his party colleague over his repeated breaches of the guidelines which he, the Chief Minister himself, issued?
MR KAINE: In answer to his question, I have absolute confidence in my leadership position in the Alliance Government.
PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
MR COLLAERY: I seek leave to make a short personal statement. I claim to have been misrepresented. I have been here now for three question times and not once have I been asked a question about welfare issues, youth issues, housing issues - - -
Mr Whalan: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; a personal explanation must confine itself specifically to the terms of the misrepresentation. The terms of the standing order require that a personal explanation confine itself to the item of the misrepresentation.
MR SPEAKER: Your objection is upheld. Please stick to the point, Mr Collaery.
MR COLLAERY: The Leader of the Opposition found among her priorities the need to ask a question as to whether the Chief Minister was aware that there was a law practice operating under my name and style in Captain Cook Crescent, Manuka. Indeed there is. I seek leave to table, in a moment, a certificate of registration of business name. That business name, Bernard Collaery and Co., is held by someone else other than myself. I withdrew from law practice on 6 December 1989. I wrote to the secretary of
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