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MR JENSEN (9.31): I make the point that we were not advised about this.
Mr Wood: No, that is true, and I apologise.
MRS NOLAN (9.31): I do think this should be placed on the record. I have been here all evening and I was not advised about this. It is appropriate that we should all know when these things are happening. I have no problem with it, but I do think that in future we should be extended that courtesy.
MR COLLAERY (9.32): We are seeing again the mad, heady rush for development by this Government. We are going to see variations brought down so that they can beat the gazettal of a law passed in this chamber. Is that what is going on?
Mr Wood: That is not the case. We are doing it to help. I should have told you, and I am sorry.
MR COLLAERY: Apparently, there is something we should have been told by the manager of government business, so I will sit down.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (9.32): Mr Speaker, I apologise to my colleagues across the chamber. I should have told them. I meant to brief Mr Collaery about it, but I did not pick up the opportunity in the last half hour. I will table these variations in one minute, in accordance with the procedures passed yesterday.
Question resolved in the affirmative, with the concurrence of an absolute majority.
APPROPRIATION BILL 1991-92
[COGNATE PAPERS:
NEW CAPITAL WORKS PROGRAM 1991-92 - REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE ON PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE - GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
ESTIMATES - SELECT COMMITTEE - REPORT ON THE APPROPRIATION BILL 1991-92 - GOVERNMENT RESPONSE]
Detail Stage
Consideration resumed.
Proposed expenditure - Division 130 - Maintenance of Law and Order, $53,409,000
MR STEFANIAK (9.33): We come now to one of the more controversial areas of the Labor Government's budget. It is fairly obvious that, although the Opposition in its various forms has problems with some parts of this budget,
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