Page 3050 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 10 September 1991
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MR SPEAKER: I would like Mr Humphries to move the motion for leave of absence for Mrs Nolan. I have been trying to get around to it since we started.
Mrs Grassby: Where is she?
Mr Connolly: Swanning around in New Zealand.
Mr Jensen: At her own expense.
Mr Kaine: She is on your business, CPA business.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Berry: Where will the Speaker be next week? Swanning around in India.
Mr Collaery: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Mr Berry very clearly cast an aspersion on you, on the Chair. He said that you would be swanning around in India next week. He is lowering the whole tone of the Assembly today, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: I thank you for your observation, Mr Collaery. I wish you had not raised the matter; it would not have been recorded in Hansard, as such. Mr Berry, if there was a slur there, would you - - -
Mr Berry: There was no slur, Mr Speaker. It was just to draw attention to the fact that you will be swanning around in India, and that each member of this Assembly, in opposition, is entitled to $2,200 worth of the Territory's funds to deal with private study matters. They are entitled to that, and they can deal with that by any means that the Administration and Procedures Committee approves.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Berry.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO MEMBER
MR HUMPHRIES (3.33): Mr Speaker, I move:
That leave of absence from 10 to 12 September 1991 inclusive be given to Mrs Nolan.
In moving that motion, Mr Speaker, I draw to the Assembly's attention, and to Mr Berry's attention, if he is listening, the fact that Mrs Nolan is travelling to New Zealand to represent the ACT Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association as our duly elected representative and is travelling entirely at her own expense.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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