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TEENAGE UNEMPLOYMENT
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer): Madam Speaker, I ask for leave of the Assembly to make a ministerial statement on teenage unemployment.
MADAM SPEAKER Is leave granted?
Mr Humphries: No.
MS FOLLETT: Why not?
Mr Humphries: Because we have not been given notice of the fact that you were to make a statement. You can move to suspend standing orders, if you want to.
Leave not granted.
Suspension of Standing and Temporary Orders
Motion (by Mr Lamont) proposed:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Ms Follett from making a ministerial statement on teenage unemployment.
MR HUMPHRIES (3.36): Madam Speaker, I simply wish to quote some words of Mr Berry in 1990. He said:
I would like to put the Government on notice that, in future, when clear notice is not given to the Opposition of matters which are going to be raised as ministerial statements, then leave will not automatically be granted ...
The issue in question is whether or not the Government has the common decency to inform the Opposition of what it intends to do by ministerial statements, as is the practice in other places and in particular in the Federal Parliament.
Mr Berry went on to describe the failure to give notice as operating by stealth and duplicity.
Mr Cornwell: When was that?
MR HUMPHRIES: It was on 5 June 1990.
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