Page 4148 - Week 14 - Thursday, 25 October 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Moore.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I again point out that all of this debate that Mr Moore and Mr Berry are engaging in - the smokescreen - is totally irrelevant because we have suspended the standing orders to allow Mr Humphries to make a statement. Unless the Assembly takes another decision, that is the fact of it and we can talk about it until the moon turns blue.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, he certainly can make a statement, but it cannot be debated, Chief Minister. That is what the objection is.
Mr Berry: I will formally move that standing orders be resumed, Mr Speaker, in order that your rulings can be properly observed by this chamber. I move:
That standing orders be resumed.
MR SPEAKER: The question is that the motion be agreed to.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I want to forget the motion. I want to withdraw the suspension of standing orders motion that I moved and instead simply move a motion of censure, as Mr Berry suggests.
MR SPEAKER: Is that acceptable, Mr Berry?
Mr Berry: That accords with the standing orders, so far as I can make out. We would not resile from the censure motion. The Government moves a censure of the Opposition. I think it is wonderful.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Please proceed, Mr Humphries.
Mr Kaine: Not the Opposition; you personally. Let us get it clear.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR W.B. BERRY
Motion of Censure
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (3.20): Mr Speaker, I move:
That this Assembly censure Mr Berry for misleading the Assembly.
Mr Speaker, on Tuesday I was asked to withdraw a statement in the Assembly in which I said that Mr Berry had told an untruth to the Assembly. At that time I said that I would withdraw the comment but would come back and prove that Mr Berry had indeed misled the Assembly. Mr Berry this week has made much of an allegation that the Government was in dereliction of its duty to provide adequate ambulance cover
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