Page 4238 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, before we proceed, would you like to address that question that you could not deal with before?
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, Mr Speaker. Mr Berry, by tabling the transcript of what was broadcast on Channel 10, seems to be implying that my answer to the earlier question he asked on that subject was to the effect that he was misquoting the report on Channel 10. I am not alleging for one moment that he was misquoting the report on Channel 10. What I am saying is that Channel 10's clipping of my interview - that is, its taking of my answer to another question - was taken out of context and that, if one were to play back the full tape of the question asked of me by the journalist and my answer to that question in full, a very different context would appear - very different from the context in which Mr Berry placed his question.
PAPERS
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General): Mr Speaker, pursuant to section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989 I table subordinate legislation in accordance with the Schedule of Gazettal Notices for a number of ministerial determinations and regulations made by the Executive. Further, Mr Speaker, I table for the information of members an exposure draft of the proposed associations incorporation legislation.
SPECIAL PREMIERS CONFERENCE
Ministerial Statement and Paper
MR KAINE (Chief Minister): I seek leave to make a statement in connection with the Special Premiers Conference.
Leave granted.
Ms Follett: Is it nice and long?
MR KAINE: Yes, it is quite long, actually. You can go to sleep. As members of the Assembly will be aware, and as was recently brought to our attention by Mr Moore, on 30 and 31 October of this year heads of government of the Commonwealth, the States and the Territories, plus representatives of local government, attended the first of a series of special premiers conferences.
Held in Brisbane, this initial Premiers Conference involved very far reaching discussions, conducted with the aim of bringing reform to intergovernmental relations in this country. The meeting provided direction for, and set in
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