Page 950 - Week 03 - Thursday, 10 March 2016
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have all been kept well abreast of the issues and the facts by many people, including residents of Red Hill.
Madam Speaker, given the variation has already been approved and I am now seeking to disallow it, the zoning in place right now is as per the variation. If Mr Rattenbury’s adjournment is successful it means we will not be discussing this again until April. I certainly hope the ship does not sail in the coming weeks regarding this matter, because it is quite possible that the government will accelerate their plans to dispose of this site in the coming weeks. If that happened it would be one of the biggest betrayals we would have seen in this place for many years. The opposition opposes this variation, and that is why we are seeking to disallow it. We hope those opposite agree.
Motion (by Mr Rattenbury) proposed:
That the debate be adjourned.
Question put.
A division being called and the bells being rung—
Members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Doszpot and Mr Rattenbury, it is disorderly to conduct debate across the chamber—
Mr Doszpot interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Doszpot! It is disorderly to conduct debate when I am making a ruling, and it is also disorderly to conduct debate across the chamber while the division bells are ringing.
Mrs Jones: Can a point of order be taken while the division bells are ringing?
MADAM SPEAKER: Yes.
Mrs Jones: Madam Speaker, I ask that you ask Minister Rattenbury to withdraw the words “get off your high horse” directed at Mr Doszpot.
MADAM SPEAKER: I do not know that “getting off your high horse” is disorderly. I have already drawn members’ attention to the—
Mr Doszpot interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: inappropriateness of exchanges of that nature during a division, Mr Doszpot.
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