Page 2905 - Week 11 - Thursday, 22 October 1992

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Ms Follett: I am not.

Mr Humphries: Well, I do not have to move the motion, do I? I am just asking. Would you table it, please?

Mr Kaine: Madam Speaker, I have no difficulty at all with tabling a copy of the question that I asked. There it is. There is no problem at all.

MADAM SPEAKER: Good; thank you. Everyone has tabled their papers; let us proceed. Mr Kaine, you will need leave - - -

Mr Kaine: If the Minister could not understand what I said, I am quite happy to have it tabled.

MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Kaine; but you will need leave to do that. Would you seek leave, please?

Mr Kaine: The Minister asked me to do it.

MADAM SPEAKER: I am sorry, Mr Kaine. The standing orders require you to ask for leave. It is not a problem.

Mr Kaine: Tell him to ask for leave. It was his request.

MADAM SPEAKER: Excuse me, Mr Kaine!

Mr Kaine: He does not want me to table it now?

MADAM SPEAKER: We are working under standing orders, Mr Kaine, not Mr Berry's whim or your whim.

Mr Kaine: Well, that is a bit unusual.

MADAM SPEAKER: We will proceed with the next question.

Mr Humphries: Madam Speaker, I did ask whether the documents could be tabled.

MADAM SPEAKER: And I have asked you to move a motion.

MR HUMPHRIES (2.36): In that case, I move:

That the document quoted from by Ms Follett (Chief Minister) be presented.

MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (2.36): Madam Speaker, this is a very interesting turn-up because - - -

Mr Moore: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I believe that Mr Humphries did not have leave to move that motion. I would have thought that to move a motion like that he might have needed leave.

MADAM SPEAKER: No, it is without leave. He can move the motion and people can speak to it.


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