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LOTUS GLEN PUBLIC PRISON, MAREEBA
Paper
MADAM SPEAKER: I call Mr Moore.
MR MOORE (3.14): Thank you, Madam Speaker.
Mr Kaine: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. I refer you to standing order 211. We know that Mr Moore is a silent member of the Labor Party, but the last I heard was that he was neither a Minister nor the Speaker. I ask you to make a ruling as to whether Mr Moore is entitled to present a paper under this heading on the notice paper.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, he is entitled to do that if he obtains leave. He is seeking leave.
Mr Kaine: Madam Speaker, my point of order is whether it ought to appear on the notice paper at all. He is neither a Minister nor the Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Kaine. The answer is the same. If the Assembly grants him leave, yes. If the Assembly does not grant him leave, it does not proceed.
Mr Kaine: Well, we will deal with that. I thought you might care to rule first.
MADAM SPEAKER: That was the ruling, Mr Kaine.
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, I ask for leave to present a paper following my visit to Lotus Glen Public Prison, Mareeba in Queensland.
Leave not granted.
MR MOORE: I move:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Moore from presenting a paper.
Speaking to that motion, I point out that there was an agreement reached on this matter in the normal way that we reach agreements. I seek to present this paper in the same way that a paper was presented by Mr Humphries, just so that members will have a - - -
Mr Kaine: Mr Humphries presented his through the Speaker.
MR MOORE: I withdraw that, Madam Speaker. It is not in the same way that Mr Humphries presented his paper. Mr Humphries presented a paper because he had been financed by the Assembly to do his study trip. In my case, while I was on holidays, on leave from the Assembly, in my own time and at my own cost, I took a look at a similar prison built at the same time as the Borallon Prison, the privately operated prison whose praise Mr Humphries sings.
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