Page 3833 - Week 14 - Thursday, 10 December 1992
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PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.
MADAM SPEAKER: You have leave, Mr De Domenico.
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, Mr Lamont made various statements about - - -
Mr Berry: No, it is a personal statement, not something about Mr Lamont.
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, do I have the floor or does Mr Berry?
MADAM SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr De Domenico. I believe that you are aware of the provisions of standing order 46.
MR DE DOMENICO: Yes, I am well aware, Madam Speaker. As I said before I was rudely interrupted, Mr Lamont made various statements about me personally and about other members of the Liberal Party that were a distortion of the facts. I did not say what Mr Lamont suggested I said about silver service. The expression I used was "silver lining". Mr Lamont also intimated that members on this side of the house had certain feelings about men with one leg and all sorts of things.
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I do not mind people making a personal statement, but this is not a debate about the various attributes of the members of the Liberal Party. I think it is fine for a personal statement to be given, but we should keep it to issues that are personal in nature.
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, let me rephrase that by saying - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr De Domenico, I draw you back to the requirements of standing order 46.
MR DE DOMENICO: In part, the allegations made by Mr Lamont were directed at me as an individual and as a member of the Liberal Party. Most of what Mr Lamont said about me was not true. I want to say for the record that that is not atypical but that what Mr Lamont did say was not true.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.
MADAM SPEAKER: You have leave, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I have been perusing the Hansard of yesterday's debates in the Assembly. I have come across a statement by Mr Berry which I did not hear at the time. In the context of discussions about donations received by political parties, he said:
Well, the Liberal Party took it -
meaning donations, I assume -
from the tobacco companies, too.
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