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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 8 Hansard (27 August) . . Page.. 2513 ..

MR HUMPHRIES: I have had virtually no opportunity to speak on this matter, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I warn you.

MR HUMPHRIES: I have written one final letter in relation to this matter, which I received no acknowledgment of, nor, for that matter, a reply. I would like to table the letter which I sent on 5 June this year to the president of the ACT branch of the Labor Party. In this letter I asked what action the Labor Party would take against any of its members found to have been involved in any electoral fraud during the Students Association elections. That letter clearly indicates that candidates on behalf of the Labor Students Club were obviously intended to benefit from the stuffing of the ballot boxes at the association elections; that it would be in the interest of any party with any association with such activities to take steps to prevent those activities from profiting any people, or, for that matter, for the parties concerned to be associated in any way with those activities. I have to record that I have not received a reply to my letter. That is most unfortunate. Mr Berry has some - - -

Mr Corbell: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. As Mr Humphries would be well aware, the Labor Students Club of the ANU is not associated in any way with the Australian Labor Party, and I cannot understand why he is pursuing this course of action.

MR SPEAKER: Thank you.

MR HUMPHRIES: It may be, Mr Speaker, that the Labor Students Club has no association with the Labor Party, but certainly the president of the ACT branch of the Labor Party has some association with the Leader of the Opposition.

Mr Berry: No, not anymore.

MR HUMPHRIES: And may be able to - - -

Mrs Littlewood: They dumped you, did they, Wayne?

Mr Berry: No, no; not for a long time.

MR HUMPHRIES: You do not know this person?

Mr Berry: Not for a long time, Gary. Haven't you noticed?

MR HUMPHRIES: You do not have any association with this person? No influence? No capacity to discuss the matter with her?

Mr Berry: You are out of date, mate. We have a new president. We have had a new one since June or July.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

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