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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 2 Hansard (2 March) . . Page.. 536 ..
MR SMYTH: The Territory Plan variation that the Planning and Urban Services Committee has before it is the Government's position on the Kingston foreshore project, and we stand by it. But what they do not understand - - -
Mr Stanhope: Oh! Whom have you gone to lunch with?
MR SMYTH: You can see the embarrassment on their faces. Mr Stanhope gets louder and louder and we notice that embarrassment in his voice. We have a process that we stick by. What they do not do is use the committee process properly. They use it for cheap and nasty political gain, lashing out for a front-page headline when there is a process to follow. What we have seen in this place over the last two years is the degradation of the committee process. If I was one of them I would be embarrassed, but they also should be ashamed of themselves.
Mr Corbell: I take it that that is a no, you will not rule it out. Is that what that means?
MR SMYTH: You were not listening.
Ms Carnell: I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.
MR QUINLAN: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation in relation to Mr Humphries' response to Mr Hird's question.
MR SPEAKER: Proceed.
MR QUINLAN: In addressing that question, Mr Humphries referred to an article in the Canberra Times which commenced with the paragraph:
The Chief Executive of Actew, John Mackay, has confirmed that a company willing to pay between $200 million and $500 million for a share of a utility had been frozen out of the bidding process.
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, this is not a point of personal explanation.
MR QUINLAN: I am just identifying the article, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: You are standing up to make a personal explanation. Either make it or sit down.
MR QUINLAN: I wanted to make sure everybody knew the right article, the one where Mr Mackay confirms - - -
MR SPEAKER: Do not test my patience.
Mr Moore: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. Perhaps Mr Quinlan does not realise that standing order 46 states specifically that matters may not be debated.
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