Page 3500 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 19 September 1990
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Mr Duby: Standing order 52, Terry.
Mr Connolly: I hear "standing order 52", which may indeed be correct. I am also looking at House of Representatives Practice on page 554. I would ask you to direct that Mr Jensen refer to new matters, not matters that have previously been traversed.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I will just very quickly take advice on that. Mr Clerk, stop the clock, too, if you can do that.
Mr Jensen, as long as you assure me you are introducing new material and not traversing again what was said during that debate, I will allow you to continue.
MR JENSEN: I will leave it up to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to check to make sure that I do keep to new matter. This fact was not discussed during the debate - certainly not by me and certainly not by the Chief Minister. The Government cannot sell the land for an office block, a factory, a shopping mall or medium density - - -
Mr Connolly: Mr Deputy Speaker, I call your attention to the state of the house.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Ring the bells.
Ms Maher: I do not think you can do that in the adjournment debate.
Mr Duby: No, you cannot ring the bells in the adjournment debate because the house just rises.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Connolly called my attention to the state of the house. The question has to be put at the end of the adjournment debate, Mr Duby, when we do actually adjourn.
Mr Duby: I remember an occasion when the Opposition walked out en masse in an adjournment debate and as a result we had - - -
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I remember an occasion, too, during the adjournment debate. I do not think we ended up with a quorum so the house had to adjourn then; put it this way, Mr Duby: unless we have a quorum in four minutes we are certainly adjourning.
(Quorum formed)
MR JENSEN: I see that I have only about a minute to go, and I do not think I have a minute's worth of talking. I thank Mr Connolly for his kind calling of a quorum at this time.
Mr Deputy Speaker, as I was saying, the Government cannot sell the land for an office block, a factory or a shopping
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