Page 2402 - Week 06 - Thursday, 23 June 2011
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use them. They are the appropriate channels for individuals who may have a grievance with the way that they are being treated—may or may not. There are appropriate avenues to pursue such things, and the Assembly is not one of those places.
MR HARGREAVES: A supplementary.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: Thanks very much, Mr Speaker. Chief Minister, are you surprised at the current level of criticism from those opposite, given their 2004 election promise not to proceed to build the AMC, and have you heard anything positive by way of suggestions from them around that institution?
MR SPEAKER: The question is out of order. It is not for the Chief Minister to answer on opposition policies or its track record.
Mr Hanson: Following your ruling there, Mr Speaker—we have had occasions when Mr Hargreaves has deliberately asked vexatious questions simply to soak up the opportunity for supplementary questions to be asked. I ask that you monitor that and, if he is doing such a thing and if that is the case, you not continue to go to him for supplementary questions—if you consider that is the case.
Mr Hargreaves: On the point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Hargreaves.
Mr Hargreaves: It was my intention not to soak up the supplementary question but rather—
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, we are not debating the topic.
Mr Hargreaves: to draw a conclusion.
Mr Coe: You are not responsible for doing that; you are responsible for asking questions.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Hargreaves: Mr Speaker, I do not seek to debate the issue; I just make the point that I was seeking to show a conclusion from that question. Clearly it was your ruling—and I accept your ruling—that it was not in order.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hargreaves.
Mr Hanson: I just remind the member, through you, Mr Speaker, that question time is about asking ministers questions, not about showing conclusions.
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