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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (9 May) . . Page.. 1259 ..
MR STANHOPE: I will do it now whilst it is fresh in people's minds and they can be alerted to the fact that you consistently mislead, if not tell untruths, Attorney.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Come on.
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I take a point of order on that. I also remind Mr Stanhope that the usual convention is for standing order 46 statements to be made at the end of the debate, not in the middle of the debate.
MR SPEAKER: You can use standing order 47.
MR STANHOPE: I am happy to make the explanation I want to make by leave.
MR SPEAKER: Would you mind withdrawing the implication too, please?
MR STANHOPE: I will withdraw if it is offensive to the Assembly.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. You can use standing order 47.
MR STANHOPE: I am happy to do that. I seek leave to make a statement under standing order 47.
Leave granted.
MR STANHOPE: Mr Speaker, I did not introduce the legislation. It is Mr Osborne's legislation that the Attorney is slagging off at at the moment.
Mr Humphries: But you support it.
MR STANHOPE: Certainly Labor support it, but it is Mr Osborne's legislation that the Attorney is now slagging off at. He attributed it to me, so he got that wrong. The other assertion he made which is also wrong was that the legislation abolished the Children's Court.
Mr Humphries: It did.
MR STANHOPE: I took advice from the Office of Parliamentary Counsel on that, and the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, at least in the privacy of my office, was prepared to suggest that the Attorney was talking absolute bunkum. It is an issue that we probably should have got to the bottom of at the time.
Mr Humphries: So why did you support my bill to reinstate it?
MR SPEAKER: Order, please! Gentlemen, can we get on to the business before the house?
MR STANHOPE
: The Labor Party supports a lot of legislation, Mr Humprhies. We supported that legislation because Mr Osborne did not push the point, and I regret that he did not. Once again, you made two false statements, Attorney. Firstly, you said it was my
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