Page 3091 - Week 14 - Thursday, 7 December 1989
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Mrs Grassby: That's an insult.
Ms Follett: Will he be in the new ministry?
Mrs Grassby: Don't take it, Wayne. They might take it away from you.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, could you control the members opposite and allow me to speak?
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: Mr Berry, if you thought about it sensibly and if you thought about the courtesies that we allowed you, you would withdraw your motion. In any event, whether you do or not, we will oppose your motion so that we can get on in attempting to explain to you and to the community what we intend to do in government, just as we gave Rosemary Follett the courtesy of allowing her to do that seven months ago.
MR WHALAN (11.10): Bernard Collaery, Mr Speaker, has just said "Jesus Christ". I would ask that that blasphemy be stricken from the record.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, on a point of order; I claim to have been misrepresented by this thing here opposite me.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Let us maintain the dignity of the house. Please resume your seat, Mr Collaery. I call Mr Whalan.
MR WHALAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Poor old Bernie.
MR SPEAKER: Order! We have taken a decision on Christian names, Mr Whalan.
MR WHALAN: You took a decision, Mr Speaker; we did not.
MR SPEAKER: I made a direction to the house.
Mr Jensen: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; the member opposite is clearly seeking to dissent from your ruling. I request that you take some action about his activities this morning.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Jensen. Please abide by that ruling, Mr Whalan.
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, it was quite interesting to hear the Chief Minister get up and complain in his whining voice that he was not getting a fair go from the opposition. It was absolutely amazing. All that the opposition has requested in the form of the motion that my colleague Mr Berry has moved, Mr Speaker, is that the rights which were given extremely generously to these people over here, when they were in opposition, by the then Government should be
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