Page 791 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 13 April 1994
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MR HUMPHRIES: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. The Chief Minister has made it quite clear that if someone in this place, or wherever, had come forward with an above-the-line voting proposal, without seeing it the Chief Minister would commit her party to voting no. Am I right? Obviously, I am right.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, you are asking a supplementary question. Please ask the question.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is, Madam Speaker, thank you. If a proposal comes from some member of this Assembly for a below-the-line voting ticket, will you similarly commit your Government to opposing it?
MS FOLLETT: It is entirely hypothetical, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Exactly. Mr Humphries, I refer you to the standing orders. Please check the standing orders in regard to questions. The Chief Minister is correct.
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, may I add that that is entirely hypothetical; and, not only that, it is based entirely on the misinformation perpetrated by Mr Humphries.
Assembly Chamber - Coat of Arms
MR STEVENSON: Madam Speaker, my question is to you. In the previous chamber, the Canberra coat of arms was displayed in a prominent position on the wall above your head. On that coat of arms there is a scroll with the words, "For the Queen, the Law and the People". I notice that the large emblem containing the coat of arms is not on the wall above your head, and a quick look around the chamber tells me that it is nowhere else either. I ask: When is the coat of arms that was in our old chamber going to be put up?
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you for the question, Mr Stevenson. That coat of arms is not coming. There is a new one being prepared for the chamber, and I am at this moment unable to tell you when that will be available.
MR STEVENSON: I ask a brief supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Have there been any changes other than in size or materials?
MADAM SPEAKER: Not to my recollection, Mr Stevenson.
Mr Stevenson: Like the flag. Thank you.
Mr Kaine: We are hoping that the Queen will still be there.
Mr Stevenson: And the law and the people.
MADAM SPEAKER: It is all right, Mr Stevenson.
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