Page 2282 - Week 08 - Thursday, 7 June 1990
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Mr Jensen: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker, under standing order 62 dealing with relevance. I believe we have already had a ruling on this one.
MR SPEAKER: Please be relevant, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: Indeed, I am, Mr Speaker. This Government wears the responsibility for those members who have been involved in criminal charges and have been taken into custody for serious offences in the community. Mr Kaine wears that because he, by doing very little about it, endorses that sort of behaviour in his Government.
Mr Jensen: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I ask again that as you have already ruled once before that this matter is not to be brought into the debate - - -
MR SPEAKER: There is an imputation there on the Chief Minister as well. Please proceed, but to the point, Mr Berry. I am not sure of your point, Mr Jensen.
MR BERRY: So far as imputations are necessary to demonstrate a lack of confidence in the Chief Minister, Mr Speaker, I think they are entirely relevant to this debate. As I have said time and again, this Assembly has been drawn into disrepute. The Chief Minister has been seen to do nothing - this is the important bit - except pat the people on the back who have brought the place into disrepute. An example was the fluoride debate.
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; there is a clear imputation in the words "except pat the persons on the back". He is referring, no doubt, to Mr Duby and Mrs Nolan and he is clearly implying that the Chief Minister approves of their conduct. That is a clear imputation when he says "pat them on the back". I ask that that imputation be withdrawn.
MR SPEAKER: I think that is a correct assumption. Mr Berry, please withdraw that imputation.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, he only patted one of them on the back publicly because he - - -
Mr Jensen: Mr Speaker, I raise standing order 202(e).
MR BERRY: He sang their praises publicly. He sang Mr Duby's praises publicly, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, please withdraw the imputation that the Chief Minister approved of the action.
MR BERRY: I withdraw that imputation, Mr Speaker, but I say again that the Chief Minister sang the praises of Mr Duby publicly, even though this person - - -
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