Page 735 - Week 03 - Thursday, 22 March 1990
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Mr Kaine: Well, it is a matter of courtesy, perhaps, as anything else. I notice that the member opposite has lately taken to referring to me, not by my title but simply as Trevor Kaine. Everybody else in this Assembly, Mr Speaker, does me the courtesy of referring to me by my title. I wish he would do the same thing.
MR SPEAKER: The point is taken.
MR WHALAN: In his instruction to you on 13 February at page 33 of Hansard, the Chief Minister said:
because of your office you must remain aloof from the day-to-day business of government.
I also refer you to the document which you yourself signed entitled "The Accord for Government between the Liberal Party and Others". It says in paragraph 10 that the decision making will be vested in the joint party room. How do you reconcile the direction from the Chief Minister, Mr Kaine, which directs that you remain aloof from the day-to-day business of government and this statement which you signed, which clearly makes the commitment that all decision making relating to the Government will be made in the joint party room, with your earlier statement which is that you have participated and will continue to participate in meetings of the joint party room?
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, as manager of business in the house, I ask you to exercise extreme care in answering this question. I draw your attention to standing order 117(b)(iii) and (iv), imputations and inferences. I also draw your attention to the House of Representatives Practice by which we are bound in the absence of rules to the contrary. That states at page 197:
Practice in the House of Representatives has been to change the Speaker with a change of government. The Speaker does not sever his or her connection with the governing party, may attend party meetings and does not, of necessity, refrain from election campaigning.
I ask you, Mr Speaker, not to engage in debating this issue.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Collaery. Thank you for that observation. I will take that question on notice.
Non-government Schools Funding
MRS NOLAN: I address my question to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts in his capacity as Minister for Education. What impact will the Federal ALP Government's new non-government school funding program have on the ACT?
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