Page 2868 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 15 August 1990
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MR HUMPHRIES: All right, 6 out of 10 for Mr Moore for integrity. He said that the ACT should borrow whatever it needs to provide the extra money. He gets 6 out of 10 for integrity, but only about 2 out of 10 for financial good sense. Borrowing today is borrowing from tomorrow.
Mr Moore: I certainly did not. That is not what I said at all. I have never said that at all.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Moore is changing his mind. In that case, he has not put forward any alternatives. They do not suggest in public that we should be closing schools.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I think the imputation is quite clear that, if somebody suggests 6 out of 10 for integrity, there is no integrity; even 9 out of 10 for integrity is inappropriate. I ask him to withdraw it. I go for 10 out of 10 for integrity - nothing else.
MR SPEAKER: Order! You are able to make a personal explanation on that, if you wish, Mr Moore.
Mr Moore: No, Mr Speaker. I did it as an imputation of an improper motive, under standing order 55.
MR SPEAKER: I have overruled it, Mr Moore. Please proceed, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: You want to take up my speaking time, do you not? I seek an extension of time.
Leave not granted.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: under standing order 70, I move:
That the question be now put.
Dr Kinloch: Mr Speaker, I well understand that such a motion must be put, but I really would like to have a chance to speak, and Mr Moore is gagging me.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Dr Kinloch! You cannot bring in debate when the question is to be put.
Question resolved in the negative.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I seek - - -
Mr Moore: You were not given leave. No.
MR HUMPHRIES: Then I will move:
That so much of standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent me having an extension of time of -
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