Page 1561 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 27 September 1989
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Suspension of Standing Orders
MR JENSEN (4.28): Mr Deputy Speaker, I move:
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would allow me to move that the detail stage be dispensed with.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: The question is that standing orders be suspended. Deputy Chief Minister?
Mr Moore: I move that the question be now put.
Mr Whalan: Sorry; I was on my feet. I had the call. Mr Deputy Speaker, I am on my feet. You gave me the call.
Mr Jensen: I raise a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Jensen?
Mr Jensen: I understand that Mr Whalan indicated that he had been given the call. I certainly did not hear you give Mr Whalan the call.
Mr Whalan: Mr Deputy Speaker, this is yet another extraordinary denial - - -
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! I will take advice.
Mr Moore: I take a point of order. Whether any other member is speaking or not, I can call for the question to be put.
Mr Whalan: We are entitled to debate this Bill clause by clause, and you are denying us that right.
Ms Maher: You have already debated it.
Mr Whalan: Not clause by clause. There are issues we have about which there has been no discussion. I refer to the penalties, the referendum, the six-year period. It is extraordinary.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I have taken advice. Resume your seats, please. I have a discretion under standing order 70 and, although I am mindful of some of the points people have been making about wasting time, at this stage I am prepared to hear the Deputy Chief Minister.
MR WHALAN (Deputy Chief Minister) (4.31): Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I do appreciate this opportunity, and I am now speaking against the suspension motion. Just to get this quite clear, because Michael Moore does not seem to understand this, Mr Deputy Speaker, there has been a suspension motion moved to deny the Assembly the opportunity to discuss this Bill in detail. If this suspension motion is carried, the effect of it will be to deny members of this Assembly the right to discuss
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