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MR BERRY: I acted immediately the matter was brought to my attention.
Mr Humphries: But you did nothing before it was brought to your attention, did you?
MR BERRY: Indeed, you cannot do anything until you know about it.
Mr Humphries: There you go.
MR BERRY: I accept that, Minister. All I require is that you accept responsibility for what has gone wrong and then act quickly to remedy the situation.
Mr Humphries: I accept it to the extent that you accept it.
MR BERRY: I do accept it. All I want is an undertaking that you will rectify the situation. We have received no undertaking.
Mr Humphries: You never gave us an undertaking. You could not rectify the matter.
MR BERRY: We moved quickly to do it, and all I ask is that this Minister give a commitment to rectify the situation. He has not done so.
Amnesty International
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (5.52): I rise to celebrate formally, on behalf of as many members of the Legislative Assembly as one can contemplate, and to recognise the work of Amnesty International in the ACT. Mr Speaker, the job of Amnesty is to offer peaceful, humanitarian relief to prisoners of conscience who neither have advocated nor presently advocate violence as a solution to the situation that besets them.
Mr Speaker, Amnesty is now a great international movement and it sets many communities on their own conscience to speak up on issues that surround many of us in our public life. The proposal that Amnesty has in Australia and elsewhere is that as many citizens as possible inform themselves of the growing problems in the world, particularly in the Third World, relating to torture and maltreatment of human beings.
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