Page 2822 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 22 November 1989
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in mind, I prefer now to oppose any adjournment at all and allow the debate to continue today and then let the Assembly vote on it.
Question put.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 11 NOES, 6
Mr Collaery Mr Berry
Mr Duby Ms Follett
Mr Humphries Mrs Grassby
Mr Jensen Mr Moore
Mr Kaine Mr Whalan
Dr Kinloch Mr Wood
Ms Maher
Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Mr Stevenson
Question so resolved in the affirmative.
MR BERRY (Minister for Community Services and Health): I wish to make a personal explanation. A little while ago Mr Humphries made some wild accusations about some discussions, consultations indeed, which I had with Mr Kaine about the progress of the debate today. I regarded those consultations as confidential. I am not going to comment on the detail of them, but it seems to me that Mr Humphries has quite wrongfully misinterpreted my approach to Mr Kaine. It was a consultation about progress this morning, about the issue which appears as item No. 2 on the orders of the day. I would expect that his good sense in regarding consultation in the right sort of light should not be overtaken by the need to make points in a debate where he was having some difficulty in finding reasonable issues upon which to base his argument.
I expect, when I seek consultations with parties, that cheap political points should not be taken. That was a cheap political point, without going into the detail of it, because it was a genuine consultation, as were my consultations with you in relation to Government proposals for a hospital board, which were treated rather cheaply as well.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (11.18): The standing orders have been suspended, and I thank the members of the house for agreeing to that suspension. I move:
That the debate on Mr Moore's motion be adjourned and that it be set down for cognate debate with the Government's proposals on planning when they are brought down by the Chief Minister.
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