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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (3 December) . . Page.. 4457 ..

MR HUMPHRIES: No, it is not the case that I have misled the house. An authorisation can, of course, still be attached to any of those - - -

Mr Wood: It is a red herring, the authorisation.

MR HUMPHRIES: Well, you just raised it, Mr Wood. If I understand what you - - -

Mr Corbell: You are the one who raised it.

MR HUMPHRIES: No; Mr Wood just raised the question of authorisation. I did not mention authorisation.

Mr Wood: You are twisting the path, Minister.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MR HUMPHRIES: If I could be allowed to give my answer, Mr Speaker: It was our view that, if publications were to be made which carried those photographs in future, then they should carry an authorisation.

Mr Corbell: No; that is not what you said. You said they should be banned.

Mr Wood: It is not about authorisation; it is about banning.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

Mr Stefaniak: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I am trying to hear the Minister's answer. It is very difficult with those two over there interjecting.

Mr Wood: I will speak to that point of order, Mr Speaker. The question is about banning those photographs, not about authorising or otherwise.

MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order.

MR HUMPHRIES: The effect of the regulation I have made is to ban those sorts of publications.

Mr Wood: It is not.

MR HUMPHRIES: It is.

Mr Wood: Will you get a definition from the Electoral Commissioner?

MR HUMPHRIES: I am not going to shout over Mr Wood if I am to answer this question. If an agency of the Government, a publicly-funded agency, wishes to publish a photograph of a Minister or a member, from this point onwards, in this period before an election, they have - - -

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