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| | What you say is not what you get - smh.com.au |
 | | The speaker was South Australia's crusty Archie Cameron, an absolute autocrat (and despiser of the press gallery). |
 | | On May 9, 1950, Cameron told the house that "certain interjections" which "do no credit" to MPs but which, regrettably, he'd not heard during debate the previous week, had been reported in the press. |
 | | In fact, said Cameron, "I mistook the first consonant of the adjective for the third." Either way, dumb lawyer or bum lawyer, the remark was "entirely out of order" and, although reported by the papers, had been "excluded from Hansard on my instructions". |
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