Page 1311 - Week 05 - Thursday, 25 June 1992
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MR DAVID LAMONT
Motion of Censure
MR DE DOMENICO (3.58): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion of censure in relation to a member's failure to present a document to the Assembly.
Leave granted.
MR DE DOMENICO: I move:
That this Assembly censures Mr Lamont for failing to comply with the order of the Assembly to present the relevant document from which he was quoting during the agreement in principle debate on the Animal Welfare Bill 1992 on Tuesday, 16 June 1992.
Madam Speaker, I preface my comments by saying that this situation does not give me any pleasure whatsoever.
Mr Berry: Well, why didn't you sort it out out the back?
MR DE DOMENICO: I mean that sincerely, Madam Speaker.
Mr Berry: We believe that, too.
MR DE DOMENICO: Good. Well, I hope you do, because it is the truth. Madam Speaker, on 16 June at 9.46 pm Mr David Lamont foreshadowed an amendment to the Animal Welfare Bill. He then went on to raise a range of matters which had been brought up by Mr Westende. During the course of that debate Mr Lamont read a quote from a document he had in his possession, and I asked him to table that document. Madam Speaker, I refer you to the proof copy of Hansard of the Legislative Assembly for 16 June 1992, pages 96 and 97. There was confusion, Madam Speaker, as you may recall, about the timing of my request; but Mr Lamont, in fact, did table a document. Following the debate I obtained a copy of the document tabled, and I seek leave, Madam Speaker, to incorporate it in Hansard.
Leave granted.
Document incorporated at Appendix 2.
MR DE DOMENICO: Thank you.
Mr Berry: What is the document?
MR DE DOMENICO: It is the document that Mr Lamont tabled that night. On receiving the Hansard proof the other day, Madam Speaker, there was no doubt in my mind that the document tabled by Mr Lamont was not, in fact, the one from which he read the quote. That is irrefutable, Madam Speaker. For the sake of the record I will read what Mr Lamont said and quoted. Mr Lamont said:
There is an interesting one that I will start off with in relation to some advice which I understand - and this did not come with the ACIL with compliments slip on it - some interesting matters which in fact these people have been advised to use, the tactics they have been advised to use in detailing any response to this Bill. It talks about -
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