Page 2412 - Week 09 - Thursday, 17 September 1992
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MRS GRASSBY: He is not an Independent, Mr Moore?
Mr Moore: No.
MRS GRASSBY: I see; I did not realise that Mr Stevenson was not an Independent.
Mr Moore: Isn't he the Abolish Self Government Coalition? That is what he has told the house.
MRS GRASSBY: That is right; I had forgotten. He stands for the Abolish Self Government Coalition, so he is not going to be here. So we will have two members here, one of whom, of course, will be the chairman, for the Estimates Committee. We will have hardly any of the Opposition. Mr Humphries was not here for most of this speech. He is back now and he can read it in Hansard anyway. He had better find something else to bleat about. I will give him those figures, as he was not here to hear them. Mr Humphries, you were in the last Assembly, I think. Yes, you were here in the last Assembly. I remember Mr Humphries.
The Labor Party put up 126 Bills, 38 before the house closed down. You were known as the coalition, or whatever. I can never quite remember it. I am not sure whether it was Mr Collaery's Government or Mr Kaine's Government. No, it was Mr Kaine's Government and Mr Collaery thought he was running it. That is right. You put up 85 Bills in that time. You were in government, by the way, for 18 months. You went into government in December 1989 and you were there till June 1991. If you look at the time you spent here, you should be very careful about bleating about the work that we are doing, Mr Humphries, because I think you will find that we are doing a lot more than you were doing.
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister) (11.54), in reply: Madam Speaker, I would not have had much to say about this matter except for the carping comments that came from the other side in relation to the Government's legislation list. If I could just summarise the speech that I first put to the Assembly in relation to the program, and this seems to have been - - -
Mr Moore: No, there is no need. We have all just read it. It is in front of us.
MR BERRY: It seems to have been forgotten by the members. One assumes from the fact that the Opposition adjourned the debate that they wanted to discuss the issue. Now that the issue has been discussed, they do not like it. The program was put in place to provide members with an overview of the Government's program.
Mr Moore: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Standing order 48 relates to the right of reply. It states:
A reply shall be allowed to a Member who has moved a substantive motion or that a bill be agreed to in principle, and the reply shall be confined to matters raised during the debate.
We were hoping that Mr Berry would use this opportunity to comment on the issues that we raised.
MR BERRY: I will.
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