Page 2267 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 16 June 2009
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MR CORBELL: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, your decisions this morning have been inappropriate and an abuse of the forms of this place. You have not been prepared to give any substantive reason as to why you believe it is appropriate for Mr Hanson to be given precedence in relation to moving a motion to establish a select committee on privileges. What we are seeing in this place this morning is a political stunt by the Liberal Party and the Greens to try—
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Corbell! You actually need leave to move a dissent motion.
MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion of dissent from your ruling.
MR SPEAKER: Is leave granted?
Mrs Dunne: No.
Mr Smyth: Yes, go for your life.
MR SPEAKER: Leave is granted. Mr Corbell, please continue.
MR CORBELL: The Liberals can’t even agree amongst themselves, Mr Speaker. What we are seeing this morning, Mr Speaker—
Mr Stanhope: Leave wasn’t granted.
Ms Gallagher: No, it wasn’t granted.
Mr Seselja: Leave was granted.
MR SPEAKER: Was leave granted?
Ms Gallagher: No, it wasn’t. Vicki said no.
Mr Smyth: Yes, leave is granted. We said yes.
MR SPEAKER: Okay, leave is granted.
MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, I am glad that the Liberal Party have decided they are prepared to give me leave after Mrs Dunne disagreed with her colleagues and was overruled. The issue here is that what we are seeing here this morning is a stunt from the Liberal Party and the Greens in an attempt to blacken the name of a minister and a senior public servant in this place. I have never heard such an absurd suggestion that it is appropriate—
Mr Smyth: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Mr Corbell is attempting to debate the subject of what might become a matter before a privileges committee. In his motion he seeks leave to suspend standing orders, and he needs to come back to why standing orders should be suspended.
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