Page 4691 - Week 15 - Thursday, 21 November 1991
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ELECTORAL SYSTEM
Motion
MR MOORE (4.26): Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I seek leave to move the motion in the same wording, and I foreshadow that I will then immediately move that the motion be put.
Leave not granted.
MR MOORE: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I move:
That so much of standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent - - -
Mr Wood: Come on, let us not go down these paths.
MR MOORE: Why did you fail to give leave?
Mr Connolly: We offered to do this half an hour ago.
MR MOORE: It will take no time. I indicated that I would move the motion. I made it quite clear that I would move that the motion be put straightaway, so it will take no further time. Do I have leave?
Mr Berry: No.
MR MOORE: I move:
That so much of standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Moore from moving a motion.
I move:
That the question be now put.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Original question resolved in the affirmative, with the concurrence of an absolute majority.
MR MOORE (4.28): I move:
That this Assembly calls on the Federal Parliament to discard the discredited d'Hondt and to provide the Senate electoral system for the 1992 ACT Legislative Assembly elections as recommended by the Australian Electoral Commission to the Electoral Matters Committee of the Federal Parliament.
Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, do you want me to move that the question be now put?
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