Page 1363 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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Mr Humphries: For party members, he means.
Mr Wood: Well, he did not say "party members"; he said "parties".
Mr Humphries: You know what he means.
Mr Wood: I do know what he is talking about, exactly.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I will be forced to name the member if he keeps up these violent outbursts.
Mr Whalan: Has the time elapsed, Mr Speaker?
MR SPEAKER: No, there are two minutes left.
MR STEFANIAK: In terms of the Assembly, in terms also of constituents, it is sensitive work which indeed one might not want to put in a general typing pool. I think that is a very valid comment to make, and that is indeed the comment I make in relation to confidentiality, Mr Wood.
As well as that, I think Mr Duby made some comment in relation to consultants. I seem to recall that Mr Duby himself has indeed used a consultant, namely, a well-known member and well-known ex-politician, Mr Barry Reid, a very able man. In relation to the second point, the Government itself uses consultants. As my friend and colleague Mr Jensen has said, they are used in the other place on the hill, and I think what is good for the goose is indeed good for the gander.
DR KINLOCH (3.55): Mr Speaker, I certainly endorse the remarks on confidentiality. I would like to say that, in reality, when we are talking about criticising Mr Stevenson's consultants, they were after all a husband and wife team with a young son as a volunteer. I really do not see that as a - - -
Ms Follett: That makes it all right, does it?
DR KINLOCH: We liked them on the first floor; we thought they were very proper.
MR SPEAKER: Dr Kinloch, the time for debate has expired.
MOTION FOR SUSPENSION OF STANDING ORDERS
MR WHALAN (Deputy Chief Minister) (3.56): Mr Speaker, I move:
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent members of the Select Committee on the Amalgamation of Tertiary Institutions from speaking again to the question that the recommendations of the committee be agreed to.
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