Page 2850 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 15 August 1990
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MR SPEAKER: A straight motion is all that is required.
MR MOORE (11.10): I will speak to the suspension of standing orders, Mr Speaker. Mr Humphries clearly has brought this waste of time on himself. There is absolutely no point in giving him an extension of time. It is much more important to get this part of the debate out of the way and give these people what they have asked for time and again - the opportunity to get on with the debate of the Bill.
Motion (by Mr Kaine) put:
That the question be now put.
The bells having been rung -
MR SPEAKER: The question before the house is that the question be put. There are two motions also before the house. I ask that we deal firstly with Mr Kaine's motion for suspension of standing orders and then with Mr Humphries' motion for an extension of time. The first question to be put is Mr Kaine's motion to allow Mr Humphries to give an explanation.
Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: there appears to be some confusion. When I moved that the question be put, the question to which I was referring concerned the granting of an extension of time for Mr Humphries. I had put my other motion earlier, and you set it aside, presumably.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your observation, Chief Minister. The question is that the question that the extension of time be granted to Mr Humphries be put.
Mr Berry: That is the motion on the suspension of standing orders?
MR SPEAKER: To allow an extension of time.
Mr Berry: My understanding, Mr Speaker, is that the motion that is before the house, as far as the count is concerned, is the suspension of standing orders.
MR SPEAKER: That the motion be put.
Mr Humphries: No, it is a suspension of standing orders to give me an extension of time.
Mr Jensen: We have to vote to put the motion first.
MR SPEAKER: Let us put the question that the extension of time be granted. To resolve the issue, I withdraw the motion that the question be put and put the original motion: That standing orders be suspended to allow Mr Humphries an extension of time.
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