Page 483 - Week 02 - Thursday, 22 February 1990
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Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, you upheld my previous point of order and allowed Mr Collaery, quite rightly, to finish, but now he is continuing.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Moore, your point is upheld.
Legislative Assembly Precincts
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, I have a question for you. Would you describe the Assembly precincts?
Mr Jensen: Take it on notice.
Mr Whalan: Norman has just given you your running instructions, saying take it on notice.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Whalan, for your observation. I did not hear the comment of Mr Jensen. I will take that on notice because, to be quite honest, it is not that simple to describe the precincts of this Assembly, as you know. The area outside the Assembly has been described previously, and if you really have a problem with this, I would only be too pleased to spend half an hour or longer with you, Mr Berry, to influence your knowledge of this matter.
Ms Follett: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. You did say you would take the question on notice. Do we take it you will provide an answer?
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Ms Follett. I said what I will do and that will happen.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented and seek to make a personal explanation.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR COLLAERY: It has been implied that I have had some improper contact with the casino tendering process. To ask that question of me, of course, Mr Speaker, requires the corollary to be in place - that is, that the questioner knows who the casino tenderers are. There is a certain logical inevitability about that of which we may seek an explanation in due course. I received a quite unhappy - one can only describe it in that way - message from the Licensed Clubs Association indicating to me that it was dissatisfied with the gazettal notice. There is great irony in this if one considers the role I played in the Residents Rally's attitude to a casino. The Association said:
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