Page 4355 - Week 10 - Thursday, 22 September 2011
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Mr Seselja: The minister just claimed that Mr Smyth made his comments knowingly and deliberately. That is implying that it was a lie. That is not actually what this motion says. Unless he wants to amend the words of the motion to claim that it was deliberate, he should otherwise issue a withdrawal. He cannot make wild allegations. He has to stick to the substance of his censure motion. He should be called to account and called back to order. He cannot just go and expand the censure motion now. If they want to use those kinds of words, they should add them to the motion.
MR CORBELL: The censure motion—
MR SPEAKER: On the point of order?
MR CORBELL: Yes, on the point of order, the censure motion is to censure Mr Smyth for his misleading comments, and we assert that he was deliberately misleading—
Mr Seselja: No, you don’t. That’s not what it says in the—
MR CORBELL: That is what the motion says.
Mr Seselja: No, it doesn’t. Have you read it?
MR SPEAKER: Order! One moment.
Mr Seselja: I think you just misled, Simon.
MR CORBELL: No, I did not.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, there is no point of order, Mr Seselja.
MR CORBELL: That is right.
MR SPEAKER: I think it has been a wide-ranging discussion and this is not outside the bounds of what we have heard so far.
MR CORBELL: Thank you, Mr Speaker. You can see how sensitive they are on this issue—because Mr Smyth has been caught out.
Mr Smyth interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: One moment, Mr Corbell. Stop the clocks, thank you. Mr Smyth, I have had to ask you a number of times. You are now warned for interjecting.
MR CORBELL: Thank you, Mr Speaker. You can see how sensitive they are on this—because he has been caught out. He has been caught out being far too many steps ahead of the process in this place. We must as an Assembly have regard to the processes of this place. Mr Smyth is usually the first person to stand up in this place and talk about convention and custom and practice and pull out his big, thick House of
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