Page 2378 - Week 08 - Friday, 21 June 1991
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Mrs Nolan: That is not true. Mr Kaine said himself - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Nolan!
MR STEVENSON: Yes. We are told that Mr Kaine suggested that we should look at the ballots after Mr Humphries did not trust him enough to - - -
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order. It seems to me that Mr Stevenson is reflecting on a decision of the Assembly.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I overrule your objection. Please proceed, Mr Stevenson.
MR STEVENSON: So, it could be a first for the Liberal Party in Australia and it is a sad day, indeed, that we have seen that they trust their own members so little that they would do that. The major objection to the Liberal Party gaining the position, the money, the car and everything else that goes with the post of Opposition Leader is that it does not make any sense. It does not make any sense to have someone who leads one group to speak on behalf of five groups. It is an absurdity.
Indeed, the standing orders, possibly illegally, have been changed to talk about the major minority grouping. That means that if there are two Liberals in this Assembly after the next election, or at any time, and, let us say, 10 Independents, or eight Independents, or whatever, the post of Leader of the Opposition would go to one of the two Liberal members. That, of course, is an absurdity. Mr Speaker, it was a sad day, I think many people will acknowledge, when the Liberal Party agreed with the Labor Party to change the rules when they lost the vote.
Speakership
MR PROWSE (9.45): Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to clarify a point made during the debate wherein Mr Duby stated that I had harshly judged Dr Kinloch and in fact had maligned him. If they were not the words used, they were something along those lines; I cannot recollect them. I would like to state here, and put on the record, that I did receive from Dr Kinloch a friendly warning, given to me in friendship, that there was possibly to be a move against me if I did not toe the line. I did not reflect on Dr Kinloch's intentions; I assumed that he was giving me the friendly warning that others may do so. I would like to have that on the record.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 9.46 pm until Tuesday, 6 August 1991, at 2.30 pm
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