Page 5446 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 3 December 1991
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MR SPEAKER: Do you propose that this be postponed?
MR JENSEN: I propose that my amendment No. 30 be postponed until a later hour. Is that what you want me to say?
MR SPEAKER: Consideration of clause 35, I would suggest, Mr Jensen. Is that acceptable to you?
MR JENSEN: Yes, I am quite happy for it to be taken after amendment No. 43 because it is related. I move:
That consideration of clause 35 be postponed.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (6.16): I suggest that the postponement of this clause would serve no useful purpose. I think that the proposed new division which this relates to and which Mr Jensen seeks to incorporate will not be incorporated when the time comes, so it might be just as easy to deal with the clause now and be done with it.
Mr Collaery: I raise a point of order. I do not think it is proper to anticipate - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Collaery, you can speak to the motion.
MR COLLAERY (6.17): Our view is that we should adopt the practice we followed in the human rights Bill, as it was termed as it went through, and postpone consequential provisions that depend upon a principal amendment. Amendment No. 43 is to insert a new division in the Bill and that has not been resolved by the Assembly.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (6.17): It only postpones the inevitable. We do not support such a body. As I understand it, the Assembly will not support that body. It may as well be dealt with now. If you wish to debate it and to debate all the ramifications, let us have that debate now, and we can deal with it.
MR COLLAERY (6.17): Okay. Mr Speaker, I think that for one of the first times in this Assembly we have seen machine politics clearly illustrated. Both the Liberal Party leader - - -
Mr Kaine: I take a point of order.
MR COLLAERY: What is wrong with that?
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Collaery!
Mr Kaine: Because a member expresses a view about a particular clause, that says nothing about machine politics.
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