Page 2927 - Week 10 - Thursday, 16 August 1990
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MR DUBY: Thank you for your protection, Mr Speaker. As I said, they have declined to debate it in the past and now they want unlimited time to occupy the important time of this house with what is frankly, in my view, a motion that has been put by Mr Wood which has no substance. Two hours is ample time to be able to deal with this matter and to demonstrate the support and confidence that this house has in the Minister, my colleague the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Accordingly I am opposed entirely to Mr Berry's amendment.
MR WOOD (10.37): Mr Speaker, I support Mr Berry's amendment. We believe we would need more than two hours. I see this as a tactic by the Government, because it does not think it can get enough speakers up to support a longer debate. Let me rebut the nonsense of Mr Duby's recent remark that we have avoided the debate. We have undertaken this debate on every occasion. We have great - - -
Mr Duby: Except one.
MR WOOD: Okay. For the sake of the gallery, perhaps, let me explain that on Wednesday last week we introduced our Bill which we planned to deliver this week in the normal course of events.
Mr Collaery: You said it was urgent.
MR WOOD: It is an absolutely spurious argument on your part, Mr Duby, to try to suggest that we avoided a debate on that occasion. We have raised this matter persistently in this Assembly, as we will do again today and as we will do in the future. So bear that in mind. Let us have more debate; let us see the Government not avoid the debate that we will put to it.
Amendment negatived.
Original question resolved in the affirmative.
MINISTER FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION AND THE ARTS
Motion of Censure
MR WOOD (10.39): I move:
That this Assembly censures the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts for his attack on the health and education systems in the ACT.
A censure motion is a serious motion. It is a style of motion that is not frequently proposed in any parliament. It is not one that we undertake lightly. It is regrettably a very necessary motion as the Opposition sees it as important to point to the mishandling of some very important matters in this Territory. I refer to the mismanagement and
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