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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (13 November) . . Page.. 4119 ..

MR SPEAKER: Ms Horodny, did you wish to make a personal explanation under standing order 46?

MS HORODNY: Yes, but not on this topic. You can all relax.

MR SPEAKER: Ms Horodny, there is no motion before the Chair. The matter has been dealt with.

MS HORODNY: Yes. I wish to make a personal explanation under standing order 46. It relates to a statement that Mr Humphries made in this place on 23 September 1997. It was a day that I was not in the Assembly, so I was not able to respond at that time. Mr Humphries, the debate was about community consultation. Ms Tucker had presented a paper from her committee and you were responding on the issue of consultation. You misrepresented, I believe, the facts on the issue of the mountain bike championships on Black Mountain at that time. Mr Humphries, as I recall, you came to me with a proposal that you had been presented with by the mountain bike people. You asked me what I thought of this proposal and - - -

Mr Humphries: No, I did not. I asked you what process you would use to deal with the proposal.

MS HORODNY: Okay; well, you can explain yourself under standing order 46 as well, if you like. As I recall, you came to me with this proposal and you asked what I thought of it, how I thought it would go down with the groups, and how I thought the proposal should be presented to the groups. You made a statement in the house that you then left me with this proposal. You claimed that I did not get back to you for a number of weeks, by which time there was a whole lot of hoo-ha in the community about this issue, a whole debacle about it.

MR SPEAKER: Order! This is a personal explanation, Ms Horodny. You have touched on the fact that there are some references in the Hansard.

MS HORODNY: Yes, I am getting to it. It is quite detailed. There are references in the Hansard. Mr Humphries, very soon after you came to me with that proposal - in fact, within a matter of days - I received a number of phone calls from individuals who had read in a magazine about the proposal for the Black Mountain site to be used. It was the mountain bike magazine, or one of the cycling magazines. Anyway, there was a proposal already in that magazine. So a number of the groups and individuals - - -

Mrs Carnell: Mr Speaker, I take a point of order. I think we have all been pretty reasonable on this.

MR SPEAKER: I am going to uphold the point of order. This is a personal explanation. I am not interested in cycling magazines, or anything else. I want a personal explanation.

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