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The introductory attachment to the first volume of the draft National Capital Plan contains a proposal that the total open space setting should be designated land. Does your Government agree with this proposal?
MR KAINE: The answer is no.
Mr Whalan: Supplementary?
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, may I request that any further questions be placed on notice. It is now well after the prescribed time for question time. They have had a fair go.
Mr Moore: It is not a finished answer. There is a supplementary question.
Mr Kaine: He can place it on notice; there is no problem.
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion that, in view of the absence of government business on the business paper, the period of question time be extended by 30 minutes.
Leave not granted.
Suspension of Standing and Temporary Orders
MR WHALAN (3.08): Mr Speaker, I move:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Whalan from moving that, in view of the absence of Government business on the business paper, the period for question time be extended by 30 minutes.
Mr Speaker, these people on the other side are terrified. There is a word for it. They are scared, but I will not say the other word. They are scared out of their wits; I will say it nicely. They are terrified. They are not game to be subjected to question time. They are a mob of gutless wonders. They will not subject themselves to question time. They are running scared.
This motion to extend question time would not normally be moved, but they are now the Government. I appeal to the people in the gallery to look at the notice paper, the daily program for this Assembly. When we were in government it was chock-a-block full of government business.
On this occasion this Government, which has been in office now for two and a half months, has not done sufficient work to bring business into this chamber. It is a lazy government. This sitting of the Assembly is going to fold because this Government, Trevor Kaine's Liberal coalition Government, cannot produce business for us to conduct.
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