Page 3018 - Week 10 - Thursday, 15 September 1994
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MR HUMPHRIES (3.13): Very briefly, Madam Speaker, we of course will support the motion; but I should put on record that the Chief Minister has never approached any of us about allowing us to have all our questions asked during question time.
Ms Follett: Every time I have been asked, I have.
MR HUMPHRIES: We always stand up. We are always willing to ask more questions. We have never come to the end of a question time with no-one ready to stand up and ask a question, Madam Speaker. So, I think the Chief Minister might have had a bit of feverish imagination working overtime here. We welcome this motion. We think it is an appropriate way, in a small parliament like this, to have matters properly ventilated. There is no reason why we should not all get a question during question time.
MR STEVENSON (3.14), in reply: I acknowledge that the Chief Minister has, indeed, allowed question time to go on a number of times, for various reasons.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Lease Purpose Clauses - Fyshwick Property
MR STEVENSON: Madam Speaker - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, that is it for today. We are finished with question time. You will have to seek leave to ask the question.
MR STEVENSON: I seek leave to ask a question, Madam Speaker.
Leave granted.
MR STEVENSON: My question is to Mr Wood in his capacity as Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. It concerns the sex shop known as Club X at Fyshwick. When the lease was obtained for the property they were allowed to sell porn videos and lingerie. Since that time, I am informed, they now operate a cinema, a club lounge, video booths and perhaps a brothel, because there are rooms where sexual activities are encouraged. There are two major areas here. First of all, does that fit within the lease purpose clauses? Secondly, to allow these various activities to take place there have been extensive renovations made. Is it true that no plans were ever submitted, that no permits or certificates of compliance were issued and that no approval by the body corporate has been obtained? I make one more final very important point: I believe that the insurance for the common property is just about to expire and that the insurance companies have mainly refused to renew the insurance because of the lack of building permits on this property.
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