Page 373 - Week 03 - Thursday, 1 June 1989
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STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
MR SPEAKER: As I have received more nominations than there are places on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, pursuant to standing order 222 the Assembly will proceed to a ballot to determine the committee's membership. The ballot papers will now be distributed. The members nominated are: Mr Duby, Mr Jensen, Mr Kaine, Mr Stevenson and Mr Wood. Will members please write on their ballot papers the names of four members - I repeat, four members - who they think should be chosen to serve on the committee.
Mr Stevenson: Mr Speaker, would you be good enough to read those out again.
MR SPEAKER: Certainly. For the Standing Committee on Public Accounts members nominated are: Mr Duby, Mr Jensen, Mr Kaine, Mr Stevenson and Mr Wood. Members, this could take some little time. Just bear with us while we run through the mechanics of that. After that, we will have a similar ballot for the members of the Standing Committee on Social Policy.
(Ballot papers having been distributed)
PRIVILEGE
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, whilst you are doing that, might I raise a matter of privilege, with the Speaker's leave? Mr Speaker has of course written notice, as required under the relevant standing order, standing order 71. Mr Speaker, I draw to the attention of the Assembly an incident which occurred just after the sitting this morning, when the Chief Minister's staff refused access to the fifth floor media room for the media to interview a member of this Assembly other than a member of a Government party.
Mr Speaker, the precincts of this house come, in my respectful submission and on the basis of precedent set out in the relevant documents, within your jurisdiction. I bring that matter of an apparent breach of privilege to your attention. I move that the apparent breach of privilege be referred to the incoming Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures as an early item on its agenda and for it to report to you, Mr Speaker, before the house resumes.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Collaery. That notice should be in writing.
MR COLLAERY: With respect, it is. You have it.
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