Page 1351 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 25 March 2009
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Mr Seselja: It was circulated.
Mr Coe: You should have a copy in front of you.
Ms Porter: We do now.
MR STANHOPE: I do, but it was circulated and moved subsequent to mine. In fact, I do not believe that it was ever formally moved.
Mr Seselja: That is not what the Speaker—
Mr Coe: I moved it. I moved it in my speech. You should have a copy in front of you.
Mr Seselja: He moved it in his speech.
MR STANHOPE: You were not here, Mr Seselja. You actually did not see the depth of the confusion that Mr Coe was suffering at the time.
Mr Seselja: I don’t think it was his confusion. If the Speaker accepts that he has moved it, he has moved it. That is who rules on whether he has moved it.
Ms Porter: Can you move something you have not circulated and you have not even got?
Mr Coe: I gave it to the clerks to do that.
Mr Seselja: When he moves it, he hands it to them. They can circulate it. There is nothing that says you have to—
MR STANHOPE: No, you didn’t. You rushed off to the back of the room. What you did was rush off to your office.
Mr Coe: That was the motion before.
Mr Hanson: We sought leave; you gave leave.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: This is how we are going to proceed. It was a mix-up rather than a stuff-up. We will deal with Mr Coe’s motion, then we will come back and deal with Mr Stanhope’s motion. Can we just assume that the speeches and the deliveries that we have had can be dealt with and we just do bang and that, please? The question is that Mr Coe’s amendment be agreed to.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (5.33): I will not speak for long, given how long we have been held up on this procedural point, which we all believed to have been settled but it appears that the Chief Minister is not happy with the resolution of that.
We will keep it simple. We will deal with Mr Coe’s motion. Mr Coe’s motion essentially is calling for action from this government. It is saying that the consultation
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