Page 2858 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 15 August 1990
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MR KAINE: I am quite sure that if it is in the Hansard and if a request has been made to the Speaker he will act upon it.
Mrs Grassby: To the Acting Speaker; the Speaker was not here.
Mr Connolly: We also met with the Acting Speaker last week.
Mrs Grassby: You ought to check with him, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I do not think I should have to engage in a three-way conversation in a debate.
Mr Moore: You are a psychological projectionist, Bernard. That is what you are. You project your own psychological problems on to everybody else, starting with Wayne Berry and his height.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Moore, please!
MR KAINE: I listened very carefully to Mr Moore's irrational and intemperate attack, and I listened quietly, but he is not prepared to do the same for me; he has to argue with me about every word or every phrase that I use. The proper way is to approach you, as the Speaker, to have separate and independent legal advice provided if he requires it; not to attack the Attorney-General or a member of the Government.
Mr Moore: Of course it is my job; that is the Opposition's job.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Please desist.
MR KAINE: If you want to do so, ask the Speaker to do what you would like him to do.
Mr Moore: It was done.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Moore! Do it through me.
MR KAINE: The Attorney-General was in no way involved with this advice which was sought by the Speaker and which was provided to him. To make this attack is quite unreasonable, intemperate and irrational. I think Mr Moore would do better to go about his business in a more rational way and not deal with it in this fashion on the floor of the house because he has an audience to play to.
MR WOOD (11.40): Mr Speaker, I am dismayed at the actions of the Government in seeking to have this Bill withdrawn. To me, it is a very clear avoidance of the issue. If I could explain to the people in the gallery, who may be bemused by the proceedings here, the Labor Party Bill, which was to prevent school closures by writing a piece into the legislation, has been claimed by the Government
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