Page 1672 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 30 April 1991
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MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Collaery has just sought an extension of time. Is leave granted?
Leave not granted.
Mr Humphries: Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, I move:
That Mr Collaery have an extension of time of five minutes.
Ms Follett: I take a point of order. An extension of time is an extension of time. You do not specify an amount.
Motion (by Mr Humphries) put:
That Mr Collaery (Deputy Chief Minister) be granted an extension of time.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 11 NOES, 5
Mr Collaery Mr Berry
Mr Duby Mr Connolly
Mr Humphries Ms Follett
Mr Jensen Mrs Grassby
Mr Kaine Mr Wood
Ms Maher
Mr Moore
Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Mr Stevenson
Question so resolved in the affirmative.
MR COLLAERY: I think the record should show that we wasted 11 minutes on this frivolity. This Opposition says that it is concerned about government funds, but it has held up this Assembly by refusing to give me a short extension of time. The last several minutes of my speaking time were taken up by points of order when the Leader of the Opposition called me a liar and finally withdrew.
Mr Speaker, to summarise what I said in defending my colleague Gary Humphries: Firstly, the motion of Mr Berry's is self-defeating because it puts forward that the system was in a crisis at the time of December 1989. Therefore Mr Berry's oral claim in this house, that Mr Humphries had caused the crisis, is simply uncontestable. He has defeated his own argument. He must learn debating styles if he wants to move serious censure motions. I am surprised that none of the Opposition who did speak moved to assist Mr Berry in any way in fleshing out his case. It has fallen on its face.
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