Page 1011 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 April 1994
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Mr Kaine: Who suspended the sitting in 1989?
MR BERRY: Your Speaker, was it not?
Mr Kaine: It was your Speaker. You put the Speaker there in 1989, not I.
MR BERRY: I think he was your little mate.
Mr Kaine: My principle still stands. The principle that I am bringing still stands, Mr Berry, and I still ask the Speaker, not you, to explain.
MR BERRY: May I say, Mr Kaine, that his actions then were appropriate. There was a necessity for it to be done in order to maintain reasonable order in the place when dealing with legislation, which was new to you at least, and certainly new to most of us. It was more confusing for you, as it turned out. Therefore, rightly, he briefly suspended the sitting in order that you could get yourself across the issues. The same sort of logic applies in relation to this matter. There was a need to address the issues. I believe that the Speaker dealt with it appropriately. I do not think anybody is denying that there was a lot of information before the chamber. It would have been inappropriate to proceed without people being able to get themselves across it. Mr Kaine, I would not get up and bleat about precedents.
Mr Kaine: You were not even in the house, so how can you speak with authority on what happened?
MR BERRY: I would not, if I were you, get up and bleat about precedents, given your own record.
Suspension of Sitting
MADAM SPEAKER: I will now point out that, before the Assembly was suspended, I said, "I believe that it is the wish of the Assembly to suspend". There was no dissenting voice.
Mr Kaine: Well, it was not. What led you to that conclusion?
MADAM SPEAKER: You are out of order.
Mr Kaine: Madam Speaker - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: I am speaking. You are out of order.
Mr Kaine: I am not out of order, and I will move dissent in a minute if you keep this up.
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