Page 2970 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 16 October 2007
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Mr Smyth: I raise a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker.
MR STANHOPE: legislation such as the occupational health and safety bill or the Canberra Institute of Technology—
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, Chief Minister! Resume your seat. There is a point of order.
Mr Smyth: This is not a speech relevant to the suspension. It has to be relevant or he should sit down.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Chief Minister, take note of the relevance of Mr Corbell’s procedural motion.
MR STANHOPE: I am. What is relevant is the need, and this is the purpose—
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Well, I hope you do, Chief Minister. I hope you do.
MR STANHOPE: The purpose of Mr Corbell’s motion is to allow the executive, the government of the day, to proceed with its business, to debate and pass legislation in the interests of the people of the ACT. It is legislation which you obviously do not want to debate. We know you do not care about occupational health and safety.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order on the opposition benches!
MR STANHOPE: We know you do not want to debate the Canberra Institute of Technology Amendment Bill. We know you are not interested. What we do know and what we see increasingly, actually, in the interventions of Mr Smyth in any debate is the very good sense that you do show on some issues; namely, at least, the decision led by Mr Mulcahy. It is certainly the wisest thing that Mr Mulcahy has done in this place—
Mr Smyth: I raise a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. This is entirely out of order.
MR STANHOPE: and perhaps the most courageous—the knocking off of Brendan Smyth as a leader.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Resume your seat, Mr Smyth.
MR STANHOPE: It is the one thing where I think actually every member of the Assembly is in accord with Mr Mulcahy—
Mr Mulcahy: I raise a point of order.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Chief Minister!
MR STANHOPE: He had the sense and the courage—
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