Page 1494 - Week 06 - Thursday, 2 July 2020

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MADAM SPEAKER: Yes, that is your statement.

MR PARTON: Yes, that is correct. I apologise for stepping outside those broadcast guidelines and certainly commit to the fact that I, for the balance of the term, will go to great lengths to make sure that that is not the case. We have deleted the videos which featured the footage from inside the chamber. At this stage I am continuing to receive advice on the second video and it still remains and so I will—

MADAM SPEAKER: No. The question now is that both videos be removed and you will agree to that or I will be naming you. The advice I have is that they should both be removed.

MR PARTON: I am, with respect, continuing to seek advice on the second video because—

MADAM SPEAKER: The question is that you will remove it or I will be naming you.

MR PARTON: My position is that we are continuing to seek advice on the second video.

MADAM SPEAKER: All right. I am naming you, Mr Parton.

Question (by Madam Speaker) put:

That Mr Parton be suspended from the service of the Assembly.

The Assembly voted—

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Mr Parton was suspended at 12.15 pm for three sitting hours in accordance with standing order 204, and he withdrew from the chamber.

Sitting suspended from 12.15 to 2 pm.

Questions without notice

Public housing—CCTV cameras

MR COE: I have a question for the Minister for Housing and Suburban Development. Minister, were a number of bright yellow CCTV cameras in wire cages installed in a number of public housing complexes in the inner north last month and then taken down a week later? If so, why were they installed and then removed?

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