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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 13 Hansard (19 November) . . Page.. 3713 ..

Mr Smyth: You can't make a decision. Indecisive to the end.

MR STANHOPE: We will do these things.

Mr Smyth: "I just don't know."

MR STANHOPE: Are you enjoying this Privileges Committee report, Mr Smyth? Are you to be anointed the leader on Friday, to take over on Friday? Why not make Mr Humphries resign today? It would leave the Liberal Party in a shambles. They couldn't get through a sitting week without him. That is what he tells the Canberra Times-they couldn't get through a sitting week without him. They can't trust Mr Smyth until Friday, because they couldn't get through the week without Mr Humphries.

Mr Smyth: I take a point of order. The speech should have been on whether the house agrees to the motion.

MR SPEAKER: A point well taken.

Mr Smyth: Mr Stanhope is just having a bit of a free-ranging binge. Perhaps you can bring him back to the motion.

MR SPEAKER: Thanks for your assistance, Mr Smyth.

MR STANHOPE: The government has never said that it proposes to move a censure motion. It is simply unacceptable for the standing orders to be suspended to allow us to move a motion that we have never said we intended to move. I could actually move for the suspension of standing orders to give you an opportunity to resign today. You have foreshadowed you are going to resign this week. You have foreshadowed that you will be putting Mr Smyth into the job on Friday. I could actually ask for the suspension of standing orders to allow you to resign today.

Question put:

The Assembly voted-

 	Ayes 7  			Noes 10

 Mr Cornwell	Mr Stefaniak	Mr Berry  	Mr Quinlan
 Ms Dundas			Mr Corbell	Mr Stanhope
 Mrs Dunne     			Mrs Cross  	Ms Tucker
 Mr Humphries       		Ms Gallagher  	Mr Wood
 Mr Pratt      			Mr Hargreaves   
 Mr Smyth    			Ms MacDonald  

Debate adjourned to the next day of sitting.

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