Page 3081 - Week 14 - Thursday, 7 December 1989
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Thursday, 7 December 1989
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MR SPEAKER (Mr Prowse) took the chair at 10.30 am and read the prayer.
MOTION WITHOUT NOTICE
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, I seek the leave of the Assembly to move the following motion:
That the ACT Legislative Assembly censures Mr Bernard Collaery for deliberately and wilfully misleading the Assembly by falsely stating in the Assembly that he had, in the company of Trevor Kaine, visited the office of the Speaker on 23 November, a claim denied by Mr Kaine when he said he had no personal knowledge of the matter.
Leave not granted.
SUSPENSION OF STANDING AND TEMPORARY ORDERS
MR WHALAN (10.31): Mr Speaker, I move:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent me from moving a motion of censure of Mr Collaery.
Mr Speaker, in the debate on Tuesday, 5 December 1989, Mr Collaery made as the centrepiece of his argument for his motion of no confidence in relation to the then Chief Minister, Rosemary Follett, the fact that he had, in the company of Mr Trevor Kaine, visited your office on the morning of 23 November 1989. I quote from the Hansard of that particular day. Mr Collaery said:
On the morning of 23 November 1989 Mr Kaine and I resolved to visit your office to ascertain the substance of the report and you, Mr Speaker, informed Mr Kaine and me that it had been put to you by the Government that the non-passage of the Bill could result in funding difficulties.
Mr Speaker, subsequent to that occasion I have had the opportunity to listen to the tape which was a full record of the - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Whalan, I would just point out that you are talking to the suspension, not to the motion.
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