Page 2203 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 9 May 2012

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MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, Mr Rattenbury has already said that we can revisit the matter of the standing order on another occasion, or the matter of the continuing resolution at another time. If this house so wishes, we can debate that. We are not debating that at the moment. We are debating my ruling. That is what we are debating. Mr Rattenbury is clearly acting as a crossbench member of the Greens at the moment and not as the Speaker. That is what he is doing sitting in that seat. When he stands in that place, that is what he is doing. It is very clear to me what Mr Rattenbury’s role is at the moment.

Mr Hanson, I am not confused about what his role is. I do not know how you are confused. The matter is dissent from my ruling. If you wish to talk about that—that is, the motion before us—you may do so. I think you have a bit more than three minutes left.

MR HANSON: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I will get back to the point after Mr Rattenbury’s quite rude interjection. I will conclude by noting that the point is very clearly laid out in the Companion. The point is made very clearly that if we continue to deny ourselves the opportunity to debate important matters of concern by the rigid application, in this case your rigid application, of a convention that has been rendered redundant by the actions of others, which it clearly has, then we would be fools. It is a foolish ruling that you have made and that is why we are dissenting.

Question put:

That the Deputy Speaker’s ruling be dissented from.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 6

Noes 11

Mr Coe

Mr Smyth

Mr Barr

Mr Hargreaves

Mr Doszpot

Dr Bourke

Ms Hunter

Mrs Dunne

Ms Bresnan

Ms Le Couteur

Mr Hanson

Ms Burch

Ms Porter

Mr Seselja

Mr Corbell

Mr Rattenbury

Ms Gallagher

Question so resolved in the negative.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, do you want to resume your speech?

MRS DUNNE: Yes.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: You have five minutes, 21 seconds remaining.

MRS DUNNE: Madam Deputy Speaker, suffice to say that between 2007 and the beginning of this year this particular young person has been arraigned on a number of charges and on a number of occasions for breaches of his bail conditions and for offending while being on bail. These matters are of considerable concern to the

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