Page 2527 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 7 August 1991
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MR JENSEN: Yes, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, in an answer to a question, Ms Follett implied that my supplementary question appeared not to be based on fact. Might I read into the record the final paragraph of a media statement which was released under the auspices of the Chief Minister, dated 24 July and headed "Land Tax on Rental Properties". The final paragraph says:
Ms Follett said that land tax of one percent of the unimproved value of the land would apply to non-exempt properties as from 1 August 1991. Whether land is taxable will be determined as at this date and apply for the rest of the financial year. For future years, the taxable status of land will be determined on 1 July and apply for the ensuing year.
If Ms Follett listens to that and reads my question, I think she will see the point of what I was trying to get across. At some stage she might like to give me an answer on that.
SUSPENSION OF STANDING AND TEMPORARY ORDERS
Motion (by Mr Stevenson) proposed:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent order of the day No. 1, private Members' business, relating to the Publications Control (Amendment) Bill 1991, from proceeding forthwith.
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister) (3.04): This is obviously a move by Mr Stevenson to get around the established practices of this Assembly. If there were a matter of some urgency, the Labor Government would be prepared to contemplate a motion to extend private members' business on any day. But I say to you, Mr Speaker, that before we would do that we would want to be convinced well in advance of the motion coming to the Assembly because we have a government program to which we want to adhere. We have matters which have to be dealt with, and I think members of this Assembly generally - the responsible ones, anyway - agree that the Government has to be able to deal with its program in the course of the Assembly's sittings, that is, unless there is some matter of private members' business which has been raised prior to the sittings, to give people a fair go.
These issues have to be considered on the basis of their urgency and so on. There is no sign that this is an urgent matter; there is nothing hanging on it.
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