Page 3102 - Week 14 - Thursday, 7 December 1989
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the tradition, the convention, of this rather short-lived Assembly, that with statements of that sort there is a motion associated with them. That motion is usually moved by the - - -
MR SPEAKER: Make your point of order, please, Mr Whalan.
Mr Whalan: The point of order is that it was appropriate for Mr Kaine to have moved a motion along the lines that the paper be noted.
MR SPEAKER: Please resume your seat, Mr Whalan. That is not a point of order. You are debating an issue and that is not a point of order.
Mr Whalan: Well, will you rule whether or not Mr Kaine should move that the paper be noted?
Mr Collaery: The Speaker cannot order someone to move a motion.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your point there.
Mr Whalan: I move then, Mr Speaker, that the paper be noted.
MR SPEAKER: I will take advice on that.
According to standing orders, only a Minister can so move.
MR COLLAERY (Deputy Chief Minister) (11.44): Mr Speaker, I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the following paper:
Alliance Government's objectives and program - Ministerial statement, 7 December 1989.
Mr Whalan: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker - - -
MR SPEAKER: Just a moment, Mr Collaery. Allow me to hear the point of order. Please be quiet.
Mr Whalan: Mr Speaker, it is appropriate that the person who delivers the paper moves the motion. Now, if Mr Kaine is not up to that, then it is quite - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Whalan, you are not addressing a point of order. It is up to the Government to decide who will move that motion.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I have moved that the Assembly take note of the paper delivered by Mr Kaine. I refer to my motion. Shall I read it again, Mr Speaker?
Ms Follett: No, you cannot do that.
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