Page 953 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 27 March 1990
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Mr Moore: Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker, you made me withdraw on exactly the same point of order. Now I am asking you to deal with this side of the house and that side of the house in the same way.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Moore! May I make an observation as I understand it. You were reflecting on the vote of a particular member on a particular vote. The Chief Minister is, I believe, making a general statement on voting in general. That is why I overruled your objection.
MR KAINE: Your ruling is absolutely correct, Mr Speaker, I am talking in very general terms. The fact is that Mr Moore is quite correct - members of the Government will stick together because we are dealing with a motley collection of people in opposition who have no sense of responsibility whatsoever. They will play any game to disrupt the proceedings of this house. With the exception for the moment of Mr Moore, members of the Labor Opposition carry on with this hypocrisy about the Assembly not meeting on Tuesday night. Yet through most of the debate the previous four Ministers in this failed Government have not even been on the floor.
Mrs Grassby: Excuse me! On a point of order, Mr Speaker, I have been here all night. Ask him to withdraw that.
MR KAINE: I have no intention of withdrawing, Mr Speaker. I am stating facts. I commented at one stage today that not one of the four ex-Ministers was on the floor of the house - not one. The record is in the Hansard; that was a fact.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, it was a fact.
Mr Moore: I raise another point of order. Standing order 202, Mr Speaker. You have called the Chief Minister to order on three or four occasions. Will you now name him?
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Moore. The answer is no. Again I will put it to the Assembly: it is recorded in Hansard that there were no members of the Opposition present. That observation was again made by Mr Kaine. I believe he is correct. I believe your objection is overruled.
Mr Moore: I raise a point of order under standing order 62, Mr Speaker. We have been subjected to irrelevant and tedious repetition all day to tell us how many members are or are not in the chamber. It is irrelevant and tedious repetition.
MR SPEAKER: No, you are wrong, Mr Moore. Please proceed, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: What we are hearing from the Opposition now is typical of what has been happening all day. Not only all day - it has been happening for weeks. Opposition members carry on in this peculiar fashion and when you, Mr Speaker,
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