Page 955 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 27 March 1990
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her troops under control. She obviously has no control whatsoever over them or over the behaviour of her staff and it is about time she did. Then this Assembly could get on with its business.
MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (10.42): Mr Kaine has raised the question of reprehensible behaviour. That is something that I am very pleased indeed to comment upon tonight. All we have seen from this Government opposite is nothing short of reprehensible behaviour, and if we look at the pattern of so-called activity that it has bestowed upon this house, bestowed by the sheer weight of numbers, I think that any reasonable person would agree that it has behaved reprehensibly.
We have seen the spectacle this afternoon of every member of the Government debating the Schools Authority Annual Report 1988-89, which is not a report produced by this Government and which has already been the subject of a lengthy ministerial statement by Mr Humphries and a debate. We have had hours and hours of the time of this house wasted in a debate that has nothing to do with the report that has been tabled - a report that was not prepared by this Government and has nothing to do with the business of this Government. It is just a reflection of the absolute paucity of business that the Government is able to bring before this Assembly.
Mr Speaker, I refer you to the previous debate on the report of the Administration and Procedures Committee where I had indicated, in a couple of minutes, that we had no objection to that report and we would be happy to accept it. Again, we saw practically every member of the Government, including the Chief Minister himself, and you, Mr Speaker, debating that matter. What a waste of time.
Mr Kaine: It needed to be debated because you will not participate in the committees. That is reprehensible behaviour - you will not participate.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Kaine!
Mr Moore: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker, under standing order 202. The Chief Minister has persistently and wilfully disregarded the authority of the Chair again.
MR SPEAKER: Objection overruled, Mr Moore. Please proceed, Ms Follett.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I also wish to mention the personal behaviour of the Chief Minister in this Assembly. He has, by his own total lack of control, his bullying, his shouting and his personal abuse, brought the entire Assembly into disrepute; his behaviour is reprehensible. He has now had the temerity to complain about my staff members, Mr Hehir and Mr Webb. Mr Hehir and Mr Webb have in no way disrupted the proceedings of this Assembly. I will tell you what the behaviour that Mr Kaine - - -
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