Page 1393 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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Business of the Assembly
MRS NOLAN (5.40): I just want to make a couple of points. I certainly do not want to continue the debate that has gone on this afternoon. I am concerned that we did spend the amount of time that we spent debating such a matter this afternoon, and I am also concerned about the level of consultation that actually happens. I would have thought it would have been much more appropriate had the particular matter in question been talked about by all members of this Assembly, or at least leaders of the Assembly, and perhaps some decision could have been come to without spending the hours that we did this afternoon on such a matter.
I believe that when Bills actually come into the house there should be a committee to look at such Bills. They should be looked at in detail before they ever come into the house. We would then have an opportunity for consultation and, by the time they came into the house, all of that would have been done.
I think that it is very important that, in the next session, we introduce such a committee, as I am sure that, as we go on towards the end of the year, the level of legislation coming into the house will be much greater than it has been to date and I am sure that it will alleviate some of the problems that have obviously occurred this afternoon.
Use of Question Time
MS MAHER (5.41): Mr Speaker, I would just like to mention that, in the same statement in which Mr Stevenson was accusing Mr Wood of asking dorothy dixers, he mentioned Craig Duby and the No Self Government Party. I would just like to put it on record that the No Self Government Party asks its own questions. Quite often we give a copy of the question to the Minister either a day before or on the day that we are going to ask that question so that we do not waste time in this Assembly by questions having to be referred and put on notice. It is a pity that more people do not take the same tack.
Seminar on Assembly Procedures
DR KINLOCH (5.42): Mr Speaker, very quickly, I would like to endorse comments made on both sides of the house by those who are very concerned about what goes on here. I think sensible comments have been made in the last 15 or 20 minutes. I do hope we will get on to the LA(MS) Bill in due course. However, there are problems with that Bill. What a pity it was that there had not been preparation for that kind of legislation long, long ago. I am not blaming
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