Page 3189 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 11 September 1991
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Mr Duby: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker, in the form of a correction. I know that you would not wish to mislead the house. Mr Kaine's travel is to Queensland, not to Sydney. Your own travel, Mr Speaker, was approved yesterday evening.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, I just mentioned that.
Mr Berry: A bit of hypocrisy there.
Mr Kaine: There is no hypocrisy at all.
Mr Humphries: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Mr Berry has described Mr Kaine's travel as hypocrisy. That is a phrase grossly out of context and it fails to realise the great difference between the abuse of public funds going on on that side of the chamber and what other members of the Assembly are doing. I ask that he withdraw that phrase.
MR SPEAKER: I would ask, under the circumstances, that Mr Berry do that.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, if the record was to show exactly what I said, it would have recorded that I said, "A bit of hypocrisy there". What Mr Humphries said was that I had directed my interjection at Mr Kaine. If that is Mr Humphries' belief, good on him; but I think he is the one that ought to withdraw.
MR SPEAKER: I believe that that is an unqualified withdrawal in a roundabout way. Thank you, Mr Berry.
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, are you going to ask him to withdraw that phrase?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, we are wasting time. He did apologise to the house. Please let us get on with it.
Schools - Traffic Arrangements
MR JENSEN: My question is directed to Mr Connolly in his capacity as Minister for Urban Services. I am pleased to advise Mr Connolly that I am saving my questions from the Gazette for the Estimates Committee. I refer the Minister to the article on the front page of the Valley View yesterday headed "Young lives in danger", which refers to the Calwell Primary School. It has prompted a number of calls to me and my office about the problems in that area, as well as concerns about traffic safety arrangements in Casey Street, opposite the Calwell High School and the St Francis of Assisi school. What action is the Minister taking to have officers of his department meet with the community, including the respective P and Cs, school boards and interested parents, to undertake a complete and comprehensive reassessment of the safety arrangements for the schools I have just named?
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