Page 4917 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, my question is to Dr Kinloch as chair of the Conservation, Heritage and Environment Committee. Dr Kinloch, can you explain why you cancelled a meeting of the Conservation, Heritage and Environment Committee without consultation and at short notice on Tuesday, 4 December, when important business of the committee was to have been conducted which could well have allowed the presentation of an interim report on environmental matters to this Assembly? To what extent was your concern for the vulnerability of your own position as chair of that committee, where there is prestige and an allowance - - -
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I raise standing order 117. This question is intimidating and speculative, and there is an imputation there. Mr Speaker, if you are going to rule this Assembly strictly, I would ask you to ask Mr Moore to withdraw the inferences that he has drawn already.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Collaery, your objection is upheld. Mr Moore, I would ask you to put your question in a more amicable manner if you are leading the way you are.
Mr Connolly: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: can you advise the Assembly which standing order refers to intimidatory questions?
MR SPEAKER: It is - - -
Mr Collaery: I refer to standing order 117(b), arguments.
Members interjected.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, please proceed.
MR MOORE: I apologise, Mr Speaker, if I have intimidated the Attorney-General. Dr Kinloch, to what extent was your concern for the vulnerability of your own position as chair of that committee, with its prestige and allowance, an influencing factor in that decision?
Mr Duby: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: you have already ruled on this and the member is continuing to ask exactly the same question as you ruled to be out of order.
MR SPEAKER: I did not particularly rule it to be out of order. I asked him to rephrase his question, and I believe that he has not done that in the correct manner.
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