Page 2953 - Week 13 - Thursday, 23 November 1989
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MR DUBY: Stop the clock, please, Mr Speaker.
Mr Moore: Certainly, Mr Speaker.
MR DUBY: As I was saying, once again Mr Wood has just reaffirmed his opinion, which he stated before, that we have not had one good reason. Instead, what we have had is a series of snide remarks, attacks, things which have all relied on what I know for a fact is Mr Stevenson's favourite - innuendo. Things like this just go on and on with not one firm basis or genuine claim of concern that any reasonable person would want to know about this matter of no confidence.
Mr Humphries: Wait until the adjournment.
MR DUBY: What are we going to be doing? "Wait until the adjournment", I hear from Mr Humphries. Well, what exactly are we going to have? Are we going to have the trial of this Government by media over the next 12 days? The media will want to know and the people of Canberra will want to know the basis for this matter.
If it is such an important, urgent matter, surely we should not be adjourning it until 5 December. We should be adjourning it till the soonest possible moment. I hear him say, "Wait until the debate". There may well be extraordinarily serious and important matters of public concern that will be raised in the debate. If that is the case, so be it. By all means, we will look at the issues then and look at them very carefully and closely. In the meantime, I am very, very disappointed with the behaviour of the people who have put this motion on. They have left the Territory in a period of absolute hiatus and ungovernment, for a much longer period than required.
MR HUMPHRIES: I move:
That the question be now put.
Question put.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 8 NOES, 7
Mr Collaery Mr Berry
Mr Humphries Mr Duby
Mr Jensen Ms Follett
Mr Kaine Mrs Grassby
Dr Kinloch Mr Stevenson
Mrs Nolan Mr Whalan
Mr Prowse Mr Wood
Mr Stefaniak
Question so resolved in the affirmative.
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