Page 2849 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 15 August 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Humphries, I have given a ruling.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I have a motion before the house.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Kaine, you are attempting to usurp the power of the Chair.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: I am not doing anything of the kind. I am moving the suspension of so much of standing orders as would prevent Mr Humphries from putting his case to you. He sought leave to do so; he is entitled to do so.
Mr Moore: Name the Chief Minister. He will not sit down when you tell him.
Mr Kaine: Nobody has told me to sit down.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Chief Minister! Please! Mr Moore, please resume your seat. Mr Humphries, to provide a method of getting past this impasse, would you please withdraw your comment and then make your explanation.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is ridiculous. If I make my explanation after I have withdrawn - - -
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I draw your attention to 202(e), and I call on you to name Mr Humphries for persistently and wilfully disregarding the authority of the Chair.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Berry, for your observation.
Mr Duby: Perhaps the Speaker has had too much sun.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Duby. This is absolutely ridiculous. The debate is going on over some small issue that is easily resolved by withdrawal of the statement. I ask you once more and for the last time: Please, Mr Humphries, withdraw the statement.
Mr Connolly: The Speaker is speaking to you, Mr Humphries.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Humphries?
MR HUMPHRIES: What is the question, Mr Speaker?
Mr Berry: Now that he has been named.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Berry, please resume your seat. Mr Humphries, I have asked you to withdraw the comment.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I withdraw, and I seek an extension of time. I move:
That so much of standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Humphries speaking for a further 10 minutes.
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