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Legislative Council - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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Personal Explanation

MEMBER'S REMARKS

The Hon. R.D. LAWSON (17:26): I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Leave granted.

The Hon. R.D. LAWSON: I claim to have been misrepresented by the Attorney-General who, earlier today in the other place, complained of remarks made by me in this chamber yesterday. The substance of my remarks yesterday was that the Attorney-General had been guilty of discreditable conduct when, in 2004, he attempted to have a report tabled in parliament for an ulterior purpose.

The Attorney accused me of deliberately misleading the council, not because I accused him of discreditable conduct but because I described his remarks in the house on Tuesday as gratuitously insulting the executive producer of Today Tonight. What the Attorney-General said earlier this week was:

In the three weeks that have passed since the sentencing of Terry Norman Stephens, I have not noticed Today Tonight tell its audience the outcome of the Terry Norman Stephens' prosecution, which I would have thought was a necessary coda to its 2002 series of sensational claims.

The clear implication of the Attorney's statement was that Today Tonight was under an obligation to inform its audience of certain matters but that it failed to do so. That is clearly a reflection on Channel 7 and its executive producer, who happens to be Graham Archer. Far from me misrepresenting the Attorney, he has misrepresented me.


At 17:28 the council adjourned until Tuesday 24 March 2009 at 14:15.


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