Page 3387 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 18 September 1990
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Mr Collaery: No, within reason.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, you are not to reflect on the vote earlier.
MR BERRY: I will not reflect on the vote.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR BERRY: I will not reflect on the vote. I will not say that the vote was wrong. Does that reflect poorly?
Mr Collaery: More than that. You cannot argue again.
MR BERRY: I will not say that it was right then.
Mr Collaery: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. He is clearly indicating he intends to retraverse the issues.
Mr Duby: Why don't you just say you lost?
MR BERRY: I cannot say that either; that would be reflecting on the vote. There has been a misrepresentation of the facts, Mr Speaker, which I wish to raise. I think it is important for Government members opposite. If they could be patient, I think it might be worthwhile just listening for a moment. The issue, of course, is that this place is quite different, and this was never discussed during the course of that debate. What occurs here is quite different from that which occurs in all of the other parliaments in Australia. All of them are of a different size; they all have different election systems; they have a different basis upon which they were formed, a different timing, and all those sorts of things.
The fact of the matter is that what was sought was the involvement, in a participatory way, of all of the members of the Opposition and the Government appointed members to look at the Government's budget, and to ensure that there was no question that the budget was inquired into properly and that a full range of Opposition members had a deliberative say in the report of the Estimates Committee. It is a matter of fact that we have been denied that opportunity.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 10.17 pm
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