Page 1671 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 May 1990
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Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; Mr Connolly clearly has not taken his tablets today and he is unable to control himself.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Collaery, would you please withdraw the comment about the tablets.
Mr Collaery: I withdraw any suggestion that Mr Connolly is on medication.
MR KAINE: I have been trying desperately for the last two or three minutes to establish the case for a suspension of standing orders so that I can present this important report that hundreds of people out there in the community are waiting for. If I succeed in doing it, it will clearly be over the opposition of the people sitting opposite who do not want to know about the things that concern this community. I would commend to them that they set their minds to the issues that really have been confronted by the Government in terms of the community. I exhort them to give me leave to present this paper.
MR BERRY (3.58): The reasons why this suspension of standing orders should not be allowed go to the gutlessness of the Government to accept public scrutiny over the performance of its Ministers. This suspension of standing orders should not be allowed and a further suspension of standing orders, which I will move thereafter, should be carried to enable a censure motion to be moved against Mr Duby, the Minister for Finance and Urban Services.
Mr Speaker, this Government is in trouble. It has, as part of its numbers, members who have been convicted of very serious criminal offences. The Government has a moral obligation to ensure that the people of Canberra can hear the debate about - - -
Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I do not hear the member opposite giving us anything that would substantiate the refusal of my motion of suspension of standing orders to prevent an important piece of Government business. He is debating some other matter.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Thank you for that observation. Relevance is required.
MR BERRY: If you had taken the time to listen, Mr Speaker - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! I was trying to support your position, Mr Berry, if you would give me the opportunity to do so. Please proceed.
MR BERRY: I am just a little bit concerned about the kiss of death, Mr Speaker. The fact of the matter is that this suspension of standing orders has been moved and leave was denied because this Government is dodging the issue of the censure motion in relation to Mr Duby - a censure motion
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