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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 11 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 3360 ..

Mr Corbell: That would be a first if you answered every bit of it.

MR SPEAKER: It might be your last, Mr Corbell, if you keep that up.

MS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, obviously the comments made by Mr Corbell are simply rubbish. Even today at lunchtime I did a full briefing for a particular organisation. I did three of them last week. My Assembly colleagues are doing the same. Mr Speaker, we have made available a staff member to work with ACTCOSS during this period of working - - -

Mr Corbell: Yes, and ACTCOSS want an extension on the community consultation.

MR SPEAKER: I name you, Mr Corbell.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion to dissent from your ruling.

Mr Moore: No, leave is not granted.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I move to suspend so much of standing orders as would prevent me from moving a motion of dissent from your ruling. I move that so much of standing orders be suspended - - -

MR SPEAKER: Order! The Clerk has advised me that I have not made a ruling. Therefore, you cannot move a motion against my ruling. I have not made a ruling; I have simply named a member. I call the leader of the house.

Mr Berry: I move that so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me from moving a motion of dissent from your decision.

MR SPEAKER: The leader of the house has the call.

Motion (by Mr Humphries) proposed:

That Mr Corbell be suspended from the service of the Assembly.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I insist. I want to suspend so much of standing orders as would prevent me from doing that.

MR SPEAKER: You will have the opportunity to vote against this motion if you wish.

Mr Berry: No, I want to suspend the standing orders.

MR SPEAKER: The question is: That the motion be agreed to.

Mr Berry: I did not hear the motion, Mr Speaker. The motion was that I - - -

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