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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 2 Hansard (2 March) . . Page.. 537 ..
Mr Corbell: On the point of order, Mr Speaker: Mr Quinlan was purely identifying the issue on which he was misrepresented.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Quinlan was well aware of the matter. He did not have to identify it. Are you going to make a personal explanation or not, Mr Quinlan?
MR QUINLAN: I seek your guidance, Mr Speaker, on the next part of the input. I wish to read another section of that article to clarify what I was asking about.
Mr Humphries: No, Mr Speaker, it has to be a personal explanation. He has to explain where he has been misled.
MR SPEAKER: It has to be a personal explanation. Rephrase it, explain where you have been misrepresented.
Mr Humphries: He is claiming that I misquoted him or misrepresented him in the Assembly. I did not read from the article at all.
MR QUINLAN: You referred to it.
Mr Humphries: I referred to it but did not read from the article. Therefore, Mr Quinlan, reading from the article is immaterial.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Quinlan. all you have to do is to explain where you have been misrepresented.
MR QUINLAN: I have been misrepresented inasmuch as Mr Humphries had available to him this article, which he referred to. I seek your guidance as to its admissibility. It includes another paragraph quoting Mr Mackay as saying:
Is Mr Quinlan seriously suggesting that having gone through a careful process of selection we should then entertain someone who rings me up?
I claim to have been misrepresented inasmuch as I had good grounds to ask that question of Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Stanhope asked me today about whether or not, on deregulation, I would expect that the ACT would experience a change in the pattern of customer loyalty, given the fact that in California, on the introduction of competition, only one per cent of the California market moved to a different supplier. Mr Speaker, I am advised that competition was introduced into California in April 1998 only for the consumers of companies selling green power at a substantial premium to normal prices.
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