Page 4495 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 19 November 1991

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Question put:

That the resumption of the debate be made an order of the day for Thursday, 21 November.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 11  NOES, 6 

Mr Collaery Mr Berry
Mr Duby Mr Connolly
Mr Humphries Ms Follett
Mr Jensen Mrs Grassby
Mr Kaine Mr Moore
Dr Kinloch Mr Wood
Ms Maher
Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Mr Stevenson

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

PERSONAL EXPLANATION

MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services): Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented and I wish to make a personal explanation under standing order 46. Mr Speaker, during the confusion of members opposite at the end of a vote recently it was loudly interjected that I had tricked or deceived or somehow conned members opposite. I find that very offensive. I am sure that when members opposite who made those remarks read the Hansard they will be prepared to retract that statement, because they will see very clearly in the Hansard that what I said was that the Government wanted to stick to the original title but we were moving an amendment to give members the option, if they wanted to change the title - which we did not - to a title which at least made some sense, namely, "Equal Opportunity Bill". That was carried.

The house then had a choice between the original title, which I had always said we supported - that is, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Bill - and an alternative title, the "Equal Opportunity Bill". In accordance with what I had said in my speech, I voted with my Labor

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