Page 297 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 20 February 1990
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PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
MR SPEAKER: Do you claim to have been misrepresented?
MR WHALAN: I most certainly have been. In response to a question during question time Trevor Kaine maliciously and cruelly - - -
Mr Kaine: You are opening it up and I am going to table the documents when you have finished.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Kaine.
MR WHALAN: Mr Kaine maliciously and cruelly sought to impugn my character by saying that I had deliberately distorted facts. In so doing he held up a document which was distributed to the community of Tuggeranong at a public meeting in the theatre of the Lake Tuggeranong College last night. In the circumstances I would like to seek leave of the Assembly to table the document which was distributed there. A perusal of that will see that the allegations of Mr Kaine are absolutely false. I seek leave to present the following paper:
Labor's position on the Tuggeranong pool - Copy of statement by P. Whalan, MLA, together with copies of -
Advertisement from The Canberra Times, 9 August 1986, calling for expressions of interest for the Tuggeranong Recreation Complex.
Map of proposed pool site.
National and Cultural Resources - 1990-91 major capital works bids.
Proposed 1989-90 forward design program.
Leave granted.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, since Mr Whalan has raised the subject, I seek leave to make a statement on the matter that he has just introduced.
Mr Whalan: Can I raise a point of order?
MR SPEAKER: Just a moment. Is leave granted?
A member: Yes.
MR SPEAKER: Leave is granted.
Mr Whalan: No, not yet. I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. In question time, and I raised the point in my personal explanation, Mr Kaine made certain allusions. He did not elaborate on what he was talking about. It is quite clear that he is going to embark on a debate, and in
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