Page 5226 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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MR COLLAERY: A future government may have commitments of one nature or another and Mr Wood's party may choose to regret the propositions that have been put forward.
Mr Wood: We would have more responsibility than to send two people away.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Wood, order! Mr Wood, I think you had the floor for your time.
Mr Wood: And he never stopped interjecting and you did not pull him up.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Not at that volume, Mr Wood.
Mr Wood: You did not pull him up.
MR SPEAKER: No-one can be heard over you, unfortunately. Please desist.
Mr Wood: Volume has nothing to do with it. If I am born with that voice, that is nature.
MR SPEAKER: Just turn the volume down a bit.
Mr Wood: You never pulled him up once.
MR SPEAKER: The volume was not objectionable.
Mr Wood: So it all depends on volume. I can whisper, can I?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Wood, please! Not on our last day.
Mr Wood: I do not think it is balanced. I know that we have had debates about this before. If he interjects on me, I interject on him.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Collaery, please proceed.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, the rhetoric that Mr Wood wishes to continue with is in marked contrast to reality and the facts. The Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act, section 39 subsection (2), clearly indicates that the exercise of powers of the Executive is not affected because there are vacancies in the membership of the Executive. It also indicates that the members of the Executive are the Chief Minister and such other Ministers as are appointed by the Chief Minister. It goes on in section 44 to indicate clearly that in the absence of the Chief Minister there is - - - (Quorum formed)
The legislation clearly indicates that the Executive can meet and can have Cabinet meetings until Mr Humphries leaves, and then, from shortly before Christmas Day and through January, there will not be meetings of Cabinet. Mr Wood well knows that in the summer recess few of our parliaments meet, except in an emergency, and even fewer of
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