Page 4585 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 27 November 1990
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Mr Collaery: You had dinner with the Prime Minister the week before last. What did you tell him?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Order, Mr Collaery!
MS FOLLETT: Those remarks are most properly addressed to you, I think, Mr Speaker, and not to me.
Mr Collaery: Well, I am not going to sit on Peter's knee, am I?
Mr Berry: On a point of order: That was an outrageous interjection from the Deputy Chief Minister. "I am not going to sit on Peter's knee". That is a disgraceful, sexist remark, and it ought to be withdrawn.
MR SPEAKER: I am afraid that the significance of that escapes me, Mr Berry. I am not sure that it is unparliamentary or causing concern to Ms Follett. Please proceed, Ms Follett.
MS FOLLETT: It is, indeed, causing concern to me, Mr Speaker. It is a sexist remark of the worst sort. It is totally inappropriate in this Parliament and I request also that it be withdrawn.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, I take your point on that line, Ms Follett. Would you withdraw that comment, Mr Collaery?
Mr Collaery: Certainly, if Ms Follett is embarrassed by the reference to one, Peter, I withdraw the reference to Peter - and his knee or vice versa.
Mr Berry: That is a smart alec remark. He just makes it worse.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Collaery, please just withdraw without qualification. Would you just withdraw the comment?
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I withdraw the comment - - -
MR SPEAKER: That will do, thank you.
MS FOLLETT: Thank you. Mr Speaker, it is only proper that we attempt to put a timetable on the obtaining of advice. We have heard from you in question time that although your request for advice has left your desk it has not yet left the Chief Minister's desk. That is a worry to me.
Mr Kaine: It has not arrived on the Chief Minister's desk.
MS FOLLETT: Or it has not arrived on the Chief Minister's desk. It has been a week. Mr Speaker, it is of great concern that the matter is apparently not being dealt with with any sense of urgency. It is quite clear to me that it is being treated as a routine matter when, in fact, it is a matter upon which the whole operation of this Assembly relies. We have heard further from Mr Collaery that he
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