Page 2489 - Week 06 - Thursday, 23 June 2011
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Here tonight we are being asked to pass amendments which have not been scrutinised by anybody, that were finally printed off at 11.36 this morning. The adviser to the scrutiny of bills committee has not had a chance to look at them; no-one has had a chance to look at them. There are real problems with the drafting. But Meredith Hunter and Katy Gallagher are tightly bound on this because there is going to be a pay-off here. Ms Hunter has moved upstairs already. She wants the ministerial office. She has got the ministerial office, and this is just part of the deal.
Mr Rattenbury: Point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, return to your seat, please.
MRS DUNNE: Oh, sorry; here is the other contender. He wants to take a point of order.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Rattenbury, you have a point of order?
Mr Rattenbury: Yes, a point of order. I think the imputation that Mrs Dunne just made about some sort of pay-off for Ms Hunter is somewhat inappropriate in the context of the debate.
Mr Seselja: Can we stop the clock, please.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Stop the clock.
Members interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: I am sorry, Mr Rattenbury; could you repeat what you said, because Mr Seselja was making too much noise.
Mr Rattenbury: Yes. Mrs Dunne just suggested there was some pay-off to Ms Hunter. I think that she has impugned Ms Hunter’s motives in the course of her comments, which I believe is a breach of the standing orders.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes; I think that statement needs to be withdrawn. I think the statement needs to be withdrawn.
MRS DUNNE: I withdraw the statement, Madam Deputy Speaker.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you, Mrs Dunne.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Coe, Mrs Dunne has the floor.
MRS DUNNE: The Greens are very tetchy, of course, because there is a bit of disunity in the Greens about who actually gets the ministerial job and how quickly we put our hand out for the ministerial job.
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