Page 1673 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 May 1990
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because one of the most important motions that can be considered by any government is the issue of censure against its Ministers. It must not be carried.
MR MOORE (4.03): We should get on with the business of the censure of this Minister.
Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; there is no motion of the kind described by Mr Moore before this house. There is another motion before the house. I submit that we had better debate the one that is before us.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Moore, please remain relevant.
MR MOORE: It certainly is relevant, Mr Speaker. What we are debating is whether we are going to proceed with the business that Mr Kaine suggested or proceed with a censure of Mr Duby; that is what we are talking about. A totally frivolous point of order was raised by the Chief Minister, who is feeling particularly nervous because he does not even know how his own team is going to vote because he knows that he has yet to act in the way he ought to act, in the way the people of Canberra would expect him to act.
What we have in front of us is a motion to suspend standing orders. He has sought leave. The Assembly has not given him leave, and the reason it has not given him leave is that there is something that the Assembly should be giving priority to. That is what this is about. It is not that we do not want to hear what Mr Kaine has got to say about TAFE - we really do - but there is a priority, and this is what you do not bloody understand. There are certain priorities in this community, there are certain priorities in this Assembly, and the priority in this case is to get rid of this man from the ministry because he does not belong to the ministry. He does not belong in a ministry - that is what we are on about - because he is a fake.
What we are after here is just the opportunity to debate this particular motion and this particular censure motion. This is what should take priority over the TAFE. We are very interested in hearing your statement on TAFE but, first of all, we have to debate the censure motion as per parliamentary practice. We should deal with the foreshadowed censure motion on Mr Duby. The surprising part to me is that the censure is not of the Chief Minister who should have booted him out.
MR SPEAKER: Order! The time for the debate has expired.
Question put.
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