Page 4014 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 24 October 1990
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Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I move that so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Collaery having an extension of time.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, you do not need to move suspension of standing orders. You just have to move a motion to extend Mr Collaery's time.
Motion (by Mr Kaine) agreed to:
That Mr Collaery be granted an extension of time.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I was rounding off, anyway. Since it is the first time I have been able to get to my feet on the schools issue, it is classic that they would try to chop me off. I think that stands in the record.
Mr Moore: You have spent 15 minutes saying nothing.
MR COLLAERY: The voice from the pillar - the little democrat from Reid - was the prime mover on that. Mr Speaker, I am trying to draw out members opposite on the seriousness of what I am saying. There is an increasing sensitivity of the judges, as Mr Connolly well knows - it was addressed by Sir Gerard Brennan in his recent Blackburn lecture - to the relationship between the government of the day and the courts.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, on standing order 62, relevance.
MR SPEAKER: Order! It is overruled in this instance, Mr Moore. Please proceed, Mr Collaery, but be brief and to the point.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, they are determined not to let me get on. You can see their contribution to the schools debate. In the Blackburn lecture some short time ago Sir Gerard Brennan said:
I do not venture to predict how the tenure of judges of proposed Courts of the Australian Capital Territory may be secured.
Mr Berry: What has this to do with this? On a point of order - - -
MR COLLAERY: I will bring it together, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Thank you for your observation, Mr Berry, but I believe there is a - - -
Mr Berry: I ask for a ruling.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry! I believe there is a court case on the schools issue. Therefore, I believe this is relevant.
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