Page 2319 - Week 08 - Friday, 21 June 1991
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SUSPENSION OF SITTING
MR SPEAKER: Is it the desire of the Assembly to suspend the sitting for a period? There being an objection, we must proceed.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I move: That the Assembly adjourn for one hour.
MR SPEAKER: I am afraid that that has to come from a Minister, Mr Kaine - unless you suspend standing orders.
Motion (by Mr Berry), by leave, agreed to:
That the Assembly suspend for one hour.
Sitting suspended from 5.47 to 6.47 pm
ELECTION OF LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION - SECOND BALLOT
Papers
MR KAINE (6.47): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion concerning the tabling of certain records of the Assembly.
Leave granted.
MR KAINE: I move:
That the ballot papers for the second ballot for the election of Leader of the Opposition earlier this day be laid on the table by the Clerk.
MR SPEAKER: The question is: That the motion be agreed to.
Mr Moore: Are you going to allow people to speak to it?
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Duby.
Mr Duby: Mr Speaker, I am not too sure of the purpose of this motion. Mr Kaine, are you going to speak?
MR KAINE: I am quite happy to speak briefly to it and to explain why. Members of the Assembly will be aware of events concerning the leadership of the Liberal Party over the last few days and I believe that there are many people in the Liberal Party and in the community who will believe, unless I demonstrate otherwise, that I voted against my own leader for this position. I believe that the only way to demonstrate positively and irrevocably that that is not the case is for the ballot papers to be laid on the table so that all can see how I, in particular, voted.
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