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Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
POSTPONEMENT OF ORDERS OF THE DAY
Motion (by Mr Whalan) agreed to:
That the following orders of the day, Executive Business, be postponed to the next sitting:
No. 3 Film Classification (Amendment) Bill 1989: Agreement in principle - Resumption of debate.
No. 4 Pesticides Bill 1989: Agreement in principle - Resumption of debate.
No. 5 Occupational Health and Safety Bill 1989: Agreement in principle - Resumption of debate.
No. 6 Home and community care program - Ministerial statement and paper - Resumption of debate.
No. 7 Medicare incentive program - Ministerial statement and paper - Resumption of debate.
Sitting suspended from 3.54 to 8.00 pm
INCORPORATION OF MATERIAL IN HANSARD
MR SPEAKER: On several occasions during debate in this Assembly, members have sought leave to incorporate material in Hansard. Therefore it is important that guidelines be established. I wish members to note that the reports of the Assembly debates (Hansard) are the reports of the speeches made by members in the Assembly. In the House of Representatives, the consistent aim is to keep the Hansard as a true record of what is said in the house, the primary purpose of Hansard being to record the spoken word.
The reasons for discouraging the practice of incorporating printed material are:
that unread material may offend the rules requiring relevance and decorum of expression;
that the unread matter may contain offensive or libellous statements to which a member may have taken objection had the words been spoken;
that the member could in effect make a longer speech than the time limit allows for;
that delays, technical problems, and increased costs of production of Hansard could result; and
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