Page 502 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 8 March 2006

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motion that he put up just after question time ate into private members’ time as well. Really, Chief Minister, I think it is extraordinary in the extreme for you to use that argument now, as it has been your actions that have caused us not to get to Dr Foskey’s important motion and it looks like we will not get to it, being nearly 10 to six.

Mr Stanhope: Shame on you.

MR STEFANIAK: Shame on you. The opposition is doing its job, which I hope you can actually see, although it seems that you cannot. The argy-bargy you have been going on with has eaten into private members’ time and certainly ensured that we will not be able to get to Dr Foskey’s motion. Ms Porter, you are lucky that we managed to squeeze in your motion. Maybe we were just lucky in terms of the time there and then this matter came up, but at least you were lucky that you got your motion in there. Poor old Dr Foskey certainly has missed out. She has missed out, not because of the opposition, but because of what you have done, Chief Minister.

Question put:

That Mr Smyth’s motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 6

Noes 9

Mrs Burke

Mr Stefaniak

Mr Berry

Ms MacDonald

Mrs Dunne

Mr Corbell

Ms Porter

Mr Mulcahy

Dr Foskey

Mr Quinlan

Mr Pratt

Mr Gentleman

Mr Stanhope

Mr Smyth

Mr Hargreaves

Question so resolved in the negative.

MR SMYTH (Brindabella—Leader of the Opposition): I seek leave to table some documents and make a short statement.

Leave not granted.

Mr Corbell: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Mr Smyth has been ordered to table documents. He does not need leave.

MR SPEAKER: No, Mr Smyth has not been ordered to do so.

Mr Corbell: I beg your pardon, Mr Speaker.

Mr Stanhope: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of clarification. I understood the Leader of the Opposition to ask for leave to make a statement. He has leave to table a document, but he does not have leave to make a statement. If I misheard him, I apologise. The government, of course, gives leave for Mr Smyth to table his document. We do not give him leave to make a statement.

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