Page 1298 - Week 05 - Thursday, 25 June 1992
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If Mr De Domenico had had the decency to raise the issue with me or the Whip, with a view to seeking leave, and we had been aware of the details, I am sure that it would have been given due consideration. But he sprang the issue of leave on the entire Assembly without prior notice, and that is why he was not given leave. We will oppose the suspension of standing orders unless we are given some information about what he is on about. It is not worth disrupting the business of this Assembly because of the bright idea of one member that we ought to consider some information about which we know nothing. On that score, unless Mr De Domenico can come up with something a little better than he has thus far, we will oppose the suspension of standing orders.
MR HUMPHRIES (3.08): Madam Speaker, to borrow a phrase of Mr Berry's, the air reeks with hypocrisy. Mr Berry might throw his mind back to previous occasions in the Assembly where motions of censure - - -
Mr Berry: Censure is a different matter.
MR HUMPHRIES: No, not at all. On those occasions, Mr Berry never gave the Government, as it then was - - -
Mr Berry: Censure motions are a different matter, and you know they are.
MR HUMPHRIES: They are not at all different; it is exactly the same. Motions condemning members for misleading the house were constantly moved in the old Assembly, by Mr Berry without notice to the Government.
Motion (by Mr Kaine) agreed to:
That the question be now put.
Question put:
That the motion (Mr De Domenico's) be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 8 NOES, 7
Mrs Carnell Mr Berry
Mr De Domenico Mr Connolly
Mr Humphries Ms Ellis
Mr Kaine Ms Follett
Mr Moore Mr Lamont
Mr Stevenson Ms McRae
Ms Szuty Mr Wood
Mr Westende
Question so resolved in the negative.
MADAM SPEAKER: Members may like to look at standing order 272. In this case, although the vote is eight ayes and seven Noes, the motion has to be carried by an absolute majority. We do not have an absolute majority in this case, so the motion is lost.
Mr Kaine: That is an absolute majority.
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