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entitled to do that without the obsessive, ideological, doctrinaire time wasting that this Opposition perpetuate and inflict on us.
MR BERRY (9.36): Mr Speaker, I - - -
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, you can speak only to Mrs Grassby's amendment.
MR BERRY: I can speak to the amendments?
MR SPEAKER: No, you can speak only to Mrs Grassby's amendment.
MR BERRY: I therefore seek leave to speak to the amendment which has been circulated in my name.
Mr Kaine: No, you have already spoken to it.
MR SPEAKER: Leave is not granted. Mr Berry, please resume your seat.
Mr Moore: Mr Speaker, I am seeking clarification. As I understood it, at the end of Mr Berry's speech he moved the amendment and then did not speak to it.
MR SPEAKER: It was his prerogative to do as he wished, Mr Moore, but he produced the amendment when he had his time to speak.
Mr Moore: Does he not get the right of reply?
MR SPEAKER: No.
MR BERRY: I therefore move:
That so much of standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Berry from speaking to his amendment.
Motion (by Mr Kaine) proposed:
That the question be now put.
Mr Berry: On a point of order: I think this gag business is a bit of a joke.
MR SPEAKER: What is your point of order, Mr Berry?
Mr Berry: I intend to take every opportunity that I can to ensure that the message is clearly before this place in relation to the behaviour of the Government members opposite.
MR SPEAKER: Order! That is a speech, Mr Berry. What is your point of order?
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