Page 1138 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 March 1990
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MR MOORE (5.08): Mr Speaker, it seems to me that the conflict here is really out of all proportion to the particular conditions.
Mr Collaery: It is your motion.
MR MOORE: The motion has got nothing to do with me. I did not even know it was coming up. In order to avoid this situation in the future, the Chief Minister should look to delivering budget statements in weeks when we still have a sitting week following. Then we would not run into these problems.
Mr Kaine: I undertook to do it in the last week in March. The sitting schedule worked out - - -
MR MOORE: I accept that that was the case in this instance, Chief Minister. I am just saying that for future planning that might be a way of doing it. But, really, we have almost reached a compromise and the suspension of standing orders ought not be necessary. The decision is now in the Chief Minister's hands.
MR BERRY (5.09), in reply: Mr Speaker, I have been asked to make a statement which might assist the Assembly getting on with the business of the day. In pursuit of the Government's support for this suspension of standing orders, I am able to give the commitment, on behalf of the Labor Opposition, that we will support a motion of adjournment on the day as it is moved by the Government at the conclusion of the Leader of the Opposition's response. My motion to suspend standing and temporary orders is now pointless so we can vote against it.
MR SPEAKER: Do you seek leave to withdraw the motion, Mr Berry?
MR BERRY: I do not know. Is there an alternative?
MR SPEAKER: I believe that it has been agreed that the Government would move a motion relating to Tuesday's sitting. There is a concern that there is no motion before the house about the Tuesday morning sitting. Does the Government propose to move that?
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (5.11), by leave: Perhaps I could foreshadow an alternative motion, assuming that Mr Berry does not wish to proceed with his. The motion is in the following words: "That the Assembly, at its rising, adjourn until 10.30 am on Tuesday, 3 April 1990, and that: (a) the first and only item of business be the Leader of the Opposition's response to the Chief Minister's budget strategy statement; and (b) at the conclusion of the reply, the debate shall be adjourned until the next normal day of sitting and the Speaker shall then forthwith propose and put the question that the Assembly do now adjourn".
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