Page 4942 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Mr Jensen, I believe that that was a qualified withdrawal. Please just withdraw the word "trust".
Mr Duby: Which members of the left do you trust, Norm?
MR JENSEN: I am not allowed to say that, Mr Duby. I will be asked to withdraw it. It is incredible. I withdraw whatever is offending the people opposite.
Mr Stevenson: I take a point of order. Mr Jensen mentioned "the people opposite". I had no particular complaint with what he said.
MR JENSEN: Let me now turn to some comments that Mr Berry made in relation to my role in talking to him during the process after Mr Moore had sought to go outside the traditions of the adjournment debate. I will come to the adjournment debate a little later. I did speak to Mr Berry. I went across to Mr Berry and suggested that it would be appropriate for him to abide by the spirit of the agreement reached with Mr Humphries. Mr Humphries explained to me prior to his leaving the chamber that he had spoken to Mr Berry and had obtained agreement from Mr Berry that Mr Berry would not pull on any votes during the adjournment debate.
Mr Berry: And neither did I. Only Norm Jensen did that.
MR JENSEN: Right. I went across to Mr Berry to suggest to him that he had made an agreement with Mr Humphries and it was appropriate that he continue to maintain the spirit of the debate because, quite clearly, there are going to be times during proceedings in this Assembly, in a small Assembly like this, when members opposite are going to have some wish or requirement to leave the chamber to undertake certain duties. That is going to happen a number of times and they are going to seek our support. For example, there will be times when a member of the Opposition may wish to pair with a member of the Government, as is often the case in the other place. Mr Berry and his people opposite have indicated to us that they have some difficulty in being able to keep to the spirit of any future agreements that might be reached with Mr Humphries.
Also, one has to ask why the motion brought forward by Mr Moore did not relate to one of his own matters. Mr Moore sought to bring on private members' business but not one of the issues that he had placed on the notice paper. I trust Mr Moore will address that, if he gets a chance to make some remarks. It was an ALP motion that Mr Moore sought to bring forward, not one of his own; so one must wonder whether the discussions that were going on between Mr Moore and Mr Connolly during that period had any bearing on that.
Mr Collaery: Which we all saw.
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