Page 306 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 20 February 1990
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Mr Whalan: No, I am not asking leave. I am asking for my rights. Mr Moore spoke to the motion and I am following Mr Moore in speaking to the motion.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, that is right.
Mr Whalan: This could have been handled in quite a normal way if the people on the other side had indicated their willingness to allow a response to the statement that Mr Kaine is going to make. That would be a normal situation. However, they refused and that is why we are now forced into making two suspensions of standing orders. It is unfortunate that that course of action has had to be adopted. Presumably, when Mr Kaine has made his statement I will seek leave. They have failed to give any indication that they support that, although there were some interjections earlier. What I am saying is that there are ways in which we can conduct the affairs of this Assembly without the acrimony which is being introduced by the Government. We saw a shemozzle last week. We were hoping that the Government had learnt from the shemozzle they created last week in the conduct of the affairs of the chamber. We know the shemozzle that the incompetent manager of business on the Government side created last week and we hope the Government has learnt from it. I understand that he has done a course over the weekend and has learnt a bit and we will see an improved performance this week. I regret that on this particular matter we have had to go through this nonsense of a couple of suspensions of standing orders. We will not vote against it.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (3.33): I have moved the suspension for Mr Whalan to present these formal budget documents because there is a great deal of doubt in people's minds. Mr Whalan has concentrated on giving the media a fair going over on this subject, but the simple fact is that he has no formal budget documents and that is why I want to give him the opportunity to present them. The documents that he has presented so far - and which I am sure that he has made sure that the media has - do not hold up to investigation if they are examined closely and they do not support the contention that Mr Whalan has put forward. Unless he has got something different - and that is why I want him to present them if he has - the documents that Mr Whalan presented yesterday do not in any way support Mr Whalan's contention, that is the statement made publicly yesterday that the previous Follett Government had included a provision in their budget for this pool and this Government removed it.
I refer to the two documents that he used yesterday in an attempt to justify his false assertion. The first
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