Page 3119 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 17 November 1992
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Assembly Questions
MR CORNWELL (10.45): Madam Speaker, I rise to address a matter to you and to ask for your guidance. I do not expect it now. It is not a major matter. Earlier today in question time a question was asked, I think it was by Ms Szuty, about trees out at Palmerston.
Mr Wood: Mrs Grassby.
MR CORNWELL: Mrs Grassby. Thank you, Mr Wood. You have now endorsed the very point I am going to make. Ms Szuty has a question on notice relating to the Palmerston tree issue. I would ask, Madam Speaker, if you would examine this matter and see whether there are some procedures to avoid this situation occurring. I am sure that it was not done deliberately or anything of that nature.
Mr Wood: It should not happen.
MR CORNWELL: No, indeed.
Mr Wood: I did not know that there was a question.
MR CORNWELL: I am not making a complaint about this. Our standing and temporary orders do not really cover the matter, as far as I can see. I would refer you to page 524 of House of Representatives Practice, which, I have to say, sadly, does not entirely answer the question either. Nevertheless, I will leave it to your judgment.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Cornwell.
Smoking
MR HUMPHRIES (10.47): Madam Speaker, the other day I received a pamphlet in the mail and I thought it might be worth quoting from it to members so that they can see the sort of thing we are up against. This document is entitled "Big Brother is watching in this, the fresh-breathed world order". It goes on as follows:
Consider this idea for a TV ad. A man lurches into a casualty ward. He is bloodied and pale, mainly because he carries his right arm in a K mart bag. Naturally, the hospital people are solicitous. As soon as the man has signed statutory declarations that he is an Anglican, that [he] has a next-of-kin who, unfortunately, now lives with a panelbeater, that he has health insurance and is not a Bosnian refugee, they let him see a doctor.
Doctor: "And how did we do that?"
Victim: "Chain saw slipped."
Doctor: "Do we smoke?"
Victim: "Yeah."
Doctor: "Impairs your reflexes, you know."
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