Page 1036 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 6 May 2014

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MR RATTENBURY: I will give you a short explanation.

MADAM SPEAKER: Normally standing order 46 is not used in the middle of debate.

MR RATTENBURY: I believe it is after the finish of a member’s remarks, Madam Speaker.

MADAM SPEAKER: No, that is standing order 47, where you could say that something you had previously said had been misconstrued. However, with the leave of the Assembly, I am happy to give you leave under standing order 46.

MR RATTENBURY: I just wish to offer a quick clarification. Mr Coe saw fit to comment on the timeliness of my arrival in the Assembly today. I want to assure members that I was speaking at a community event this morning on culturally and linguistically diverse aged care. I was back in the Assembly at 10; I was just upstairs gathering my papers.

MR COE (Ginninderra): Madam Speaker, under standing order 46—

MADAM SPEAKER: Are you claiming to have been misrepresented, Mr Coe?

MR COE: I am.

MADAM SPEAKER: Leave is granted, Mr Coe.

MR COE: I hope that I was not disparaging in my remarks when I made reference to Mr Rattenbury. The reference was simply because he physically was not in this chamber and, therefore, missed the earlier part of the debate. I was trying to bring him up to speed with the fact that Minister Corbell had quoted from minutes that had not yet been published.

DR BOURKE (Ginninderra) (10.28): It is interesting to sit here this morning and hear about Mr Coe’s shaky understanding of the role of committees and his particularly shaky understanding of the standing orders. Yesterday at noon—

Mr Coe interjecting—

MADAM SPEAKER: Order, Mr Coe! I would be very careful about those sorts of interjections. Dr Bourke.

DR BOURKE: Thank you, Madam Speaker. Yesterday at 12 noon Mr Coe brought a draft report into the committee at no notice. We had already had the chair’s draft report for several days. So this is the kind of shoddy piece of committee work that Mr Coe thinks should go on in this place. It is completely disrespectful to committee members and given the time lines there was no opportunity to properly consider whether Mr Coe’s alternative draft should be considered.


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