Page 942 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 27 March 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Whalan, please desist. Mr Humphries, you do not have leave to speak unless you are making a point of order.
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I am addressing you on the point of order.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, but you are debating the point of order.
Mr Humphries: No, Mr Speaker, I am raising with you the point of order, and making a submission to you on the basis of the point of order made by Ms Follett.
MR SPEAKER: All I request is the standing order number.
Mr Humphries: No. 213, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: And a few words drawn from that statement.
Mr Humphries: I am about to do that, Mr Speaker, if you let me speak. It says:
A document quoted from by a Member, may be ordered by the Assembly to be presented ...
Mr Collaery quoted from no document; he referred to a document.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you.
Ms Follett: Why is he speaking?
Mr Moore: He just spoke to it.
Mr Whalan: It is all right, he is on the Government side; he is allowed to do that. Don't you realise, Rosemary, that there are different rules that apply?
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Whalan! I have warned you tonight; I now name you again. You are named under standing order 202. At 8.40 pm tonight a warning was given to you to desist from speaking over me when I call you to order. You are now named.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (10.03): Pursuant to standing order 203, I move:
That Mr Whalan be suspended from the service of the Assembly.
Ms Follett: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, I thought we had a motion on - - -
MR SPEAKER: The Speaker shall forthwith put the question, with no amendment. No debate is allowed. Mr Whalan, you are now named.
Question put.
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