Page 4774 - Week 16 - Wednesday, 28 November 1990
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Today's Bill does substantially duplicate the clauses of the earlier Bill. The object of today's Bill is the same as that of the first Bill, and any legal interpretation of the two Bills would be similar. A number of the differences between the two Bills are largely technical, or take into account amendments made to the principal Act by the Publications Control (Amendment) Act 1990. Standing order 136 states, in part, that "any motion or amendment which is the same in substance as any question, which, during that calendar year, has been resolved in the affirmative or negative" may be disallowed.
Having considered the Bill introduced today, I must conclude that it is the same "in substance" as that negatived by the Assembly on 24 April this year. I therefore call on the Attorney-General to move the appropriate motion under standing order 170.
Motion (by Mr Collaery) agreed to:
That the Publications Control (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1990 be withdrawn.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Collaery) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Tabling of Documents
MR BERRY (5.00): Mr Speaker, I rise for just a couple of moments to talk about another matter which is recorded in Hansard, and that is in relation to the letter which was the subject of a motion in this place yesterday, calling for its tabling in the house.
The reason I rise is to ask members to exercise caution when they force members to table correspondence. Mr Connolly had clearly indicated, before he was forced to table the letter, that he would show the letter to the Minister concerned, Mr Humphries. It was obviously a letter which contained names of individuals, which, if the document became public, might cause some embarrassment. The sequence of events which followed Mr Connolly's offer to do that largely read as a warming up of the engines for a motion that immediately followed.
I repeat my request to members to exercise caution and be a little careful about forcing members to table correspondence which might be embarrassing to members of the community, who should really not be embarrassed as a result of a political point in this place.
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