Page 2248 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 16 August 2006
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Mr Stanhope: You cost one of your colleagues $1,000 on Monday.
DR FOSKEY: Chief Minister, I find your behaviour disorderly and unseemly.
Government members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order, Dr Foskey! Order, everybody!
DR FOSKEY: I would actually like to have a higher opinion of your behaviour than that.
MR SPEAKER: Order, everybody! Government members will cease interjecting, Dr Foskey, address the question before the House, that is, the motion to suspend the standing orders.
DR FOSKEY: Yes, Mr Speaker. I want to support Mrs Dunne. I am a member of the administration and procedures committee and last year the whips and I decided that on private members’ day we would not have matters of public importance. This agreement is not in the standing orders.
I am disappointed that it got thrown out the window, and perhaps that is because that whip is absent, but I did ask Ms Porter this morning to remind Mr Gentleman—perhaps he did not know of this arrangement and perhaps she had forgotten it herself—that, as a matter of civility, caucus had agreed not to run matters of public importance on Wednesdays.
We are hearing about the standing orders, but one thing that has changed in this Assembly, apart from, clearly, the impact of majority government, is that we cease our business at 6 o’clock. What we do not get through by 6 o’clock does not happen and then the administration and procedure committee tries to renegotiate our business for the following week. If we are now always going to have proposals to discuss MPIs, and there may have only been one application today—
Mrs Dunne: There were two. Ms Porter had one, too.
DR FOSKEY: That is interesting. I missed that.
Mrs Dunne: The truth will out.
DR FOSKEY: Yes, we are finding that, and that is really disappointing. It is one thing for the government to try to build up this claim that the Liberals have got it in for you. That is the game you play. This is all a game in a way. But do not put me in that box. I am passionate about school closures.
Government members interjecting—
DR FOSKEY: Here we go.
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