Page 2853 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 15 August 1990

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Mr Berry: Read it all. Read everything that she said. Come on, read it all.

MR HUMPHRIES: I will read everything she said. She quoted the section of the Act:

An enactment, vote, resolution or question (any of which is in this section called a "proposal") the object or effect of which is to dispose of or charge any public money of the Territory shall not be proposed in the Assembly except by a Minister.

Ms Follett then went on to say:

Now, quite clearly for the acting deputy legislative counsel to have drafted Mr Stevenson's proposed amendments, it would have meant his condoning a member of the Assembly putting up a proposal to dispose of or charge public money of the Territory. The Act is quite clear. If you want to do that, you have to get a Minister to do it for you.

That is what Ms Follett said then. She was saying that only Ministers can move Bills or appropriations or motions of that kind. That is what Ms Follett said last year when she was in the same position. She shielded herself and her Government behind section 65, but now she says that this Government may not shield behind section 65. That is nothing more nor less than hypocrisy. If section 65 was good enough for you, it is good enough for us.

MR SPEAKER: Order! I take it that leave has been given for Mr Kaine to withdraw his motion.

Question put:

That the motion to amend standing orders be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 7  NOES, 10

Mr Berry Mr Collaery
Mr Connolly Mr Duby
Ms Follett Mr Humphries
Mrs Grassby Mr Jensen
Mr Moore Mr Kaine
Mr Stevenson Dr Kinloch
Mr Wood Ms Maher
 Mrs Nolan
 Mr Prowse
 Mr Stefaniak

Question so resolved in the negative.

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