Page 3680 - Week 08 - Thursday, 19 August 2010
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MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Le Couteur): Mr Barr, please be quiet.
MR SMYTH: It is all right. Let him go. You let him go yesterday. It is fine. Let him go. I am not worried by him at all. The concerned reader at the—
Ms Hunter: Point of order, Madam Assistant Speaker.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Ms Hunter.
Ms Hunter: Mr Smyth has just put forward a slur on your chairing.
MR SMYTH: Under what standing order? What is the standing order? He was let go yesterday; it is the truth.
Ms Hunter: It is a slur on your chairing, and he needs to be pulled back into line.
MR SMYTH: He was let go yesterday. You did not interject yesterday when he was interjecting. I am not worried.
Ms Hunter: You are getting out of control, mate.
MR SMYTH: He can go for his life. I don’t mind.
Ms Hunter: You need to start pulling your head in.
MR SMYTH: It is normally inane, like it always is.
Mr Barr: Brendan, you wound me! You wound me!
MR SMYTH: I know—the same as you wound all of us with your prattle.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Smyth, reflecting on the chair is normally regarded as disorderly. Could you please withdraw that.
MR SMYTH: Madam Assistant Speaker, I withdraw.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Smyth.
MR SMYTH: The problem is that the Chief Minister does not care because he is going. The Chief Minister responds to the caller on the ABC and outs the fact that they have got this advice. Then we have this undignified scurry around on Friday when people are chasing the advice. And at five to five on a Friday afternoon the information is finally put into the marketplace. This is the way the Treasurer and health minister conducts negotiations. It has been a debacle since the start. They are now going to hide behind confidentiality. The event, no doubt, will continue. We will all watch with great interest.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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