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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 3 Hansard (8 March) . . Page.. 872 ..

MR SPEAKER: Questions may not ask ministers for expressions of opinion. As I understood from the minister's response, he was speculating on what would happen on the one hand or the other. That is hardly an expression of opinion, in my view. However, I did not hear it very clearly, so you might like to repeat it for my benefit.

MR MOORE: That was because of all the interjections, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Indeed.

Mr Stanhope: Tell us about the block of flats.

MR SPEAKER: Just be quiet.

MR MOORE: I think it is reasonable to say that Mr Corbell misunderstands the standing orders.

Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: for how much longer are you going to connive with this government to turn question time into a joke? If you are not going to uphold the standing orders, Mr Speaker, you should leave the chair.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, I would ask you to withdraw that.

Mr Kaine: I do not. I just told you that if you are not going to uphold the standing orders you should leave the chair.

MR SPEAKER: I am endeavouring to uphold the standing orders, and I ask you to withdraw it.

Mr Kaine: I won't withdraw it. Question time is a joke, and you are conniving in it.

MR SPEAKER: Then I will have to name you.

Mr Kaine: Under the circumstances, I am happy to leave, because I am sick up to here with this farce. So, by all means, go ahead and name me. And Mr Humphries can jump to his feet and seek to have me removed, and I will be happy to go.

Mr Moore: Under standing order 203, I move;

Mr Corbell: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move that so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion of dissent in your ruling to name Mr Kaine.

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

Mr Corbell: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move that so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion of dissent in your ruling to name Mr Kaine.

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