Page 5015 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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The Government really needs to respond to this point. It is not sufficient to make the trite remark that this is the same as the draft Bill and, therefore, the Opposition is just playing politics. The substantive point that the Opposition and Mr Moore are making here is that, when you do not have the safeguards of the appeal and environmental review mechanisms of the comprehensive package, it is appropriate to expand the period for public consultation. Those are the only safeguards you have. Mr Moore's amendment is a very sensible one, given those circumstances. It is disappointing to get a partisan response. Perhaps, that is the dilemma of dealing with a matter as important as this in a hurry at 11 o'clock on a Tuesday night.
Question put.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 7 NOES, 8
Mr Berry Mr Duby
Mr Connolly Mr Humphries
Ms Follett Mr Jensen
Mrs Grassby Mr Kaine
Mr Moore Dr Kinloch
Mr Stevenson Mrs Nolan
Mr Wood Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Question so resolved in the negative.
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker: is it appropriate for the Deputy Chief Minister to vote when he is not in his place?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I understand that he has a faulty microphone, Mr Berry.
Mr Collaery: Mr Deputy Speaker, may I speak on this point of order? I take it that someone has called on standing order 161. It says:
... every Member within the seats allotted ...
Clearly, I was within the seats allotted to the Government. There it is. Mr Speaker, I was within the seats allotted. There can be no other finding.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: All right. I have looked at standing orders 157 and 161 and taken advice. It does not affect the vote, but I think it is fairly clear that you are meant to stay in your allotted seats. I appreciate that Mr Collaery does have a problem with his microphone; so, perhaps, he just has to speak a little bit louder.
Ms Follett: So your vote does not count.
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