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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 7 Hansard (26 June) . . Page.. 2646 ..
MRS DUNNE
(continuing):contempt has been committed. I think that there is evidence in the three of these cases that a contempt has been committed.
Those people who think that there is sufficient evidence for this matter to be discussed further should vote to refer this matter to a committee. If you are absolutely and utterly sure that no contempt has been committed, vote no. But if you are in doubt, you need to vote for referral to a committee. In many senses, we owe the people who have been implicated here the opportunity to clear their names. A vote of this place that does not actually clear the air leaves those people under a cloud.
Although it might be difficult and it might be unpleasant, it might be the best thing in the long run to allow those people the opportunity to clear their names, to have their day in court and allow a group of our peers to make a determination in a dispassionate way. What we are doing here is not making that determination; it is allowing the opportunity for us to clear the air.
Mrs Cross
: I seek guidance, Mr Speaker. Standing order 47, I believe, allows me to get up and make a comment about a member's-MR SPEAKER
: If somebody has misinterpreted something you have said in a speech, it is open to you to correct that.Mrs Cross
: Minister Corbell, in his speech, talked about a minority report and a majority report. Can I just state that a report was signed off by all members of the Estimates Committee, but there was no dissenting report-MR SPEAKER
: Order, Mrs Cross! It is only in relation to a speech which you have made in here, so it's not really-Mrs Cross
: Mr Corbell has misrepresented the Estimates Committee.Mrs Dunne
: You will have to seek leave to speak again.Mrs Cross: Can I seek leave to speak again?
MR SPEAKER
: Let me go to the standing order. Standing order 47 says that a member who has spoken to a question may again be heard to explain where some material part of that member's speech has been misquoted. I do not think that you can claim that in relation to something that you have said in the context of this debate.MRS CROSS
: I seek leave to speak again.Leave granted.
MRS CROSS
: Firstly, Mr Corbell, in his statement a little earlier, referred to a minority report and a majority report. There was neither. There was a report, an estimates report, from a committee of five people who signed off on the report. There was no dissenting report. I want to make it clear that when the minister uses comments like that in his speech he is actually misrepresenting a former committee of this Assembly and he is misrepresenting the outcome of that report. That is the first thing.
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