Page 4118 - Week 15 - Thursday, 17 December 1992
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MR HUMPHRIES: This is it; the old "Brick wall" Berry comes back again - "No, nothing is going to come out of me. You have to drag it out of me with buckshot". No, Madam Speaker, I think everybody can see through that kind of facade. We realise that there is enormous value in getting access to that information. The community deserves it, and I think we are entitled to ask for it and to seek it in the form of this motion. With 15 seconds remaining, I will sit down.
Amendment (Mr Moore's) agreed to.
Motion (Mrs Carnell's), as amended, agreed to.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS - STANDING COMMITTEE
Discharge of Member
MR MOORE (4.05): Madam Speaker, pursuant to standing order 223, I move:
That Mr Kaine be discharged from attending the Standing Committee on Public Accounts for that committee's consideration of the Auditor-General's Report No. 6 of 1992.
Mr Kaine: Why?
MR MOORE: The interjection from Mr Kaine is, "Why?". On reading through report No. 6 of the Auditor-General I saw on pages 27 and 28 a comment by the Auditor-General about salaries of staff members. The comment there is about severance pay for what I determined by the process of deduction to be Mr Kaine's staff.
Mr Kaine: I think that you are making an assumption that is unwarranted.
Mr Connolly: Nobody else had a staff member who was elected to this Assembly.
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, it could be nobody else. Under those circumstances, because the Assembly committee is looking into action taken by Mr Kaine that the Auditor-General has drawn attention to, which raises some important questions, I think it is appropriate that a normal process that is followed quite often in matters of privilege in the House of Representatives be followed here. In no way am I reflecting on Mr Kaine's ability in the Public Accounts Committee. We all admire a number of the reports that he has brought down. On this specific report - I am talking about only this specific report - I think that he should be discharged from duty.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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