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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 6 Hansard (17 June) . . Page.. 1635 ..

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I thought you would understand the ones that relate to question time; but I will, in fact, go a little further and assist you with a bit of guidance.

MR SPEAKER: I have them in front of me, and I will be fascinated to hear how you can draw them out.

Mr Berry: The standing order relating to questions without notice states that the answer:

... shall be concise and confined to the subject matter of the question.

Guess the number. It is 118(a).

MR SPEAKER: Thank you.

Mr Berry: The subject matter of the question was contempt of a resolution of this Assembly, and I would ask the Minister to answer the question in the context of the standing orders.

MR SPEAKER: The Minister is in the process of answering the question. There is no point of order.

MR KAINE: I will answer the question, Mr Speaker. My answer will be relevant to the question. If he just waits patiently, I will answer specifically the one bit that he wants to hear answered.

MR SPEAKER: Proceed. There is no point of order.

MR KAINE: I will get to that, Mr Berry.

Mr Berry: No; I will not wait patiently, Mr Speaker, because the standing orders require the member to be relevant.

MR KAINE: Because you do not want to hear the rest of it, do you?

MR SPEAKER: I said that there is no point of order.

MR KAINE: I was quoting from an article by Mr Graham Downie, in which he says:

The perfectly reasonable and rational decision to allow Deane's Buslines to serve Canberra people for an eight-weekend trial has met with a perfectly predictable irrational opposition by the ACT Transport Workers' Union and Opposition Leader ...

At this stage the page gets a bit blank; it is Mr Anonymous. Mr Downie says:

Bus drivers have lost pay because they apparently objected to a few people having the opportunity of catching a bus which happened to be going their way.

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