Page 3095 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 12 September 1990
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Due to the intransigence and the lack of action by Mr Collaery - - -
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I rise to take a point of order in the same terms that I have previously when the Leader of the Opposition has tabled Bills of this nature. Quite clearly this Bill - clause 6 in particular - engages public moneys. Mr Speaker, I draw your attention to section 65 and standing order 200. I ask that this Bill be no further proposed until you rule on it; and that includes hearing the Leader of the Opposition any further. Mr Speaker, she is using this process - - -
Members interjected.
MR SPEAKER: Order! The house will come to order.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I draw your attention to the advice previously given to you in these matters, and I remind the house again that it is the Alliance Government which is in charge of this Territory, not the Leader of the Opposition. She mistakes again, Mr Speaker, the role of an Opposition.
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: is this a point of order or is it a speech?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, please resume your seat. I wish to make a statement concerning the taking of points of order, as I believe instances during recent sittings have shown that there is a need for clarification of the situation. Standing order 72 provides:
A Member may at any time raise a point of order which shall, until disposed of, suspend the consideration and decision of every other question.
Standing order 73 further provides:
... after the question of order has been stated to the Speaker by the Member raising it, the Speaker shall rule thereon.
In the past, I have sometimes adopted the practice of allowing only one point of order before giving a ruling. After consideration of this practice, I am now prepared to consider more than one point of order, provided they are relevant to the issue being discussed and they are raised before my ruling has been made. However, I wish to emphasise that it is up to the discretion of the Chair to hear more than one point of order before ruling. The Chair is not obliged to hear numerous points of order as on some occasions there can be no question as to what the ruling of the Chair should be, and numerous or repetitive points of order can be disorderly in themselves. I also wish to reiterate that I will hear only one point of order at a time - and I will repeat that - I will hear only one point of order at a
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