Page 2222 - Week 08 - Thursday, 10 September 1992
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Mr Humphries: Madam Speaker, I raise a point of order. The suggestion that someone has misled the Assembly is a suggestion which has always been disallowed as being unparliamentary. I ask you to do the same to - - -
Mr Berry: No, that is frivolous. He has not said - - -
Mr Humphries: He has. He has said that I have attempted to mislead the Assembly.
Mr Berry: You have not heard him. You cut him off mid-sentence.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I am about to rule. Mr Lamont, I warn you that Mr Humphries is correct. If you do say that he attempted to mislead the Assembly, I will ask you to withdraw it.
MR LAMONT: I will withdraw, at your request, Madam Speaker, any imputation that Mr Humphries deliberately misled the Assembly this afternoon. My most generous suggestion is that he did not do full justice to the document that was tabled. The document that was tabled by the Chief Minister, which was signed by Chris Eccles, Assistant Secretary, Cabinet and Policy Coordination Branch, on 2 January 1992, is word for word, comma for comma, dot for dot, exactly the same as that which was endorsed by the Alliance Government. There is not one comma different in those two documents. He went on to say that a document, which I will seek leave to table at the conclusion of this adjournment debate - - -
Mr Humphries: It has been tabled twice already.
MR LAMONT: I understand that this one has not been.
Mr Humphries: That one has not, no.
MR LAMONT: I will seek leave to table this. It is signed by Allan O'Neil, the Acting Chief Solicitor, and is dated 7 September. The most generous interpretation would be an interpretation which had been placed on this documentation by an officer of the service. It does not reject the policy of this Government in relation to that document that was issued in exactly the same terms - the Alliance Government document and our Government's document of 2 January this year. Madam Speaker, I seek leave to table that document.
Leave granted.
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MR HUMPHRIES (4.42): Madam Speaker, Mr Lamont has been mischievous in suggesting that I have - - -
Mr Berry: That is an improper imputation, I think.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is perfectly all right. Do not get so sensitive. He has been mischievous in suggesting that there was some kind of distortion in what I had to say. Mr Lamont did not listen very closely to what I had to say earlier today.
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