Page 4404 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 21 November 1990
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Dr Kinloch: That is not what I said, Gary.
MR WOOD: I will check that through; but as you are the responsible Minister and this is further evidence - I say "further" - of your ministerial failure, should you consider your position as Minister in view of the very many implied criticisms?
MR HUMPHRIES: The short answer is no. The question assumes, Mr Speaker, that what Mr Wood has said Dr Kinloch said this morning is true, or an accurate representation of what Dr Kinloch said. Neither is the case. Dr Kinloch did not say that the provision of false information was due to incompetence or misleading information. He said that he did not know the reason for such information being provided in that fashion.
Mrs Grassby: He said "loaded information".
Mr Connolly: That is right, and it was either incompetence - - -
MR HUMPHRIES: He did not say that at all. You are putting words into his mouth. I suggest that you go back and read Hansard very carefully, and you will find out what the facts are.
Mr Speaker, the information provided to the joint party room was extremely voluminous. In my view it presented a case which I, as Minister, was bringing to the joint party room. I believe that it did not omit information which was relevant to the debate before the joint party room, and I stand by that view.
Auction of Number Plates and Taxi Plates
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to the Minister for Finance and Urban Services.
Ms Follett: Maybe we should stay sitting down.
MR STEFANIAK: I have got up a few times, Rosemary; do not worry about it.
Mr Duby, was the taxi licence and numeric plate auction, which I understand was held at the Albert Hall last Thursday, successful?
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Stefaniak for the question.
Ms Follett: It is in the paper.
Mr Connolly: It is in the paper. Read the Canberra Times.
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