Page 2876 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 15 August 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, please withdraw the last comment.
MR KAINE: I withdraw the comment. But you can understand why I get a bit testy; he constantly talks over me.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Chief Minister! Please do not talk over me.
Mr Wood: Well said.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Wood!
Debate interrupted.
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
MR SPEAKER: I wish to inform members of the presence in the gallery of the Honourable Mr Clive Griffiths, MLC, President of the Legislative Council of Western Australia and regional representative of the Australasian and Pacific Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Sir, on behalf of all members, I bid you a warm welcome.
SCHOOLS AUTHORITY (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
Debate resumed.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, Mr Berry earlier put it quite succinctly: the Opposition wants to make it unlawful for the Government to close a school or a hospital. In other words, Mr Speaker, it wants to make it unlawful for the Government to do what it must do to run this Territory properly. Why do you not put a motion on the books which would make it unlawful for us to change the scheduling of the ACTION buses?
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: the point at issue, which led to the motion by Mr Collaery under standing order 170, was the cause and effect of standing order 200. Mr Kaine has got completely off the track in talking about - - -
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Are you asking for a ruling on relevance?
Mr Berry: Yes, that is right.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Please get to your point, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: The relevance, Mr Speaker, is based on the statements that Mr Berry made in the earlier debate, before we moved on to the other motion. He introduced the fact
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