Page 3594 - Week 12 - Thursday, 20 September 1990
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about that, Mr Speaker, because I am sure that would prompt a lot of leaping up and down on the other side and perhaps you might prevent me from speaking further on the matter.
It is appropriate that I raise this issue of legislation and the absence of a legislation list again. The last time I spoke about this the Attorney-General was embarrassed and complained that it was our fault that it was not here. Well, it is not our list, it is his list, and I do not know why it is being kept locked away up in his office and why there is some reluctance to put it before the Assembly.
If this Attorney-General opposite really wants to lay something on the table, he ought to do that. If he thinks it is so important for the governance of this Territory, then he could probably use his numbers to suspend so much of standing orders as would allow him to table the matter. But, of course, it is not very important; it cannot be very important. Or maybe he might muck this up the same as he mucked up the issue of extra ministries for the Territory. That will be an embarrassment for some time.
What I want to see, Mr Speaker, is the legislation list. There were some indications earlier that it was available from the Attorney-General's office, but today the indications seem to have changed, as so often things do. It might not be available and, according to my most recent advice, one would have to use gelignite to get at the legislation list.
Mr Kaine: TNT - gelignite is not strong enough.
MR BERRY: I am not an expert in explosives.
One of the questions that I would like to ask is: where is the Weapons Bill? That is extremely important - not like these pieces of legislation, these one-page wonders that fly through the house. Where is the Weapons Bill? Whilst I am having a bit of a shot: where is the Tobacco (Amendment) Bill?
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 5.00 pm, the Assembly stands adjourned until Tuesday, 16 October 1990, at 2.30 pm, in accordance with the resolution agreed to this day.
Assembly adjourned at 5.00 pm until Tuesday, 16 October 1990, at 2.30 pm
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