Page 354 - Week 03 - Thursday, 1 June 1989
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SUPPLY BILL 1989-90
Postponement of Notice
Motion (by Mr Whalan for Ms Follett) agreed to:
That notice No. 1, executive business, be postponed until a later hour this day.
EXECUTIVE AND PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS
Temporary Order
Motion (by Mr Whalan) agreed to:
That, unless otherwise ordered, the following further amendment to standing order 77 be adopted for the remainder of this Assembly: Omit "Thursday", substitute "Wednesday".
BEHAVIOUR OF MEMBERS
MR SPEAKER: Again I would like to draw members' attention to standing order 41, which deals with members passing between the member speaking and the Chair, particularly when members towards the back of the chamber are speaking. I know it is difficult - we are in a difficult circumstance - but at times the member appears to be speaking only to the Chair, with other members involved in various discussions.
I consider it quite offputting to new members of this Assembly to be distracted in this manner. So would members please take note again of that and not move across the front of the floor when other members are speaking.
The second matter that I would like to put to members is that the speaker system in this Assembly is switched on about a minute before I enter the chamber and it remains on after I leave. Therefore, if members have an aside or a favourite joke that they are waiting to put across at the end of a tense sitting, be warned that it is being relayed throughout the building for that period.
Sitting suspended from 11.59 am to 2.30 pm
MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister): I wish to advise the Assembly that Mr Whalan is travelling interstate this afternoon for family reasons. Questions relating to matters falling within his portfolio should therefore be directed to me this afternoon.
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