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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3329 ..
MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition): Mr Speaker, I would like to make a personal explanation pursuant to standing order 46.
MR SPEAKER: Proceed.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, during question time Mrs Carnell sought to create the impression that Labor would abandon the Olympic Games and I, in particular, would abandon the Olympic Games if we were elected. This was quite untrue.
MR SPEAKER: Order! You have a personal explanation. Get on with it.
MR BERRY: This was quite untrue, Mr Speaker. Yesterday I made the following statement:
... I seek leave to make a personal statement pursuant to standing order 46.
During question time Mrs Carnell created the impression that I would in some way renege on contracts that were agreed to in relation to Olympic soccer, the Raiders and other football codes at the Bruce Stadium. This is quite untrue. We will be bound by those contracts; but we want to find out what the community is being let in for, and we will continue to pursue our course until we do find out.
Mrs Carnell clearly misrepresented - - -
MR SPEAKER: Resume your seat, Mr Berry. The personal explanation has been delivered.
Statement by Speaker
MR SPEAKER: On 3 September 1997 the chair of the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs, Mr Osborne, gave written notice of a possible breach of privilege concerning a member of the Legal Affairs Committee in making public a number of the committee's recommendations on the establishment of a correctional facility in the ACT. In his letter, Mr Osborne referred to an article in the Canberra Times of 3 September 1997 headed "Hird converts to cause of ACT jail". The article referred to the forthcoming statement by the committee chair and purportedly quoted Mr Hird's views on the issue. The chair of the committee was of the view that Mr Hird may also have jeopardised the committee's deliberations on the matter.
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