Page 4049 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 13 December 2006
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Mr Corbell for his failure to negotiate. Then, of course, on 24 June 2004 the Assembly passed the following censure motion: “That the Assembly censures the Minister for Health and Planning—
Mr Corbell: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker—
MR SMYTH: for persistently and wilfully misleading the Assembly” on a number of issues.
Mr Corbell: on relevance, Mr Speaker. The motion is about the censure or proposed censure—
MR SMYTH: It was about misleading.
Mr Stefaniak: It brings your character into—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Corbell: This is not a motion about my character.
MR SMYTH: Well, it should be.
Mr Corbell: and if you wanted to make it about my character, move a motion. But it is entirely about Mr Seselja’s character, Mr Speaker, and I ask you to draw Mr Smyth’s attention to the standing order relating to relevance.
MR SPEAKER: Yes.
Mr Seselja: Mr Speaker, on the point of order: what we are talking about here is whether or not a member of this place should be censured. It is quite appropriate for a member to raise the circumstances in which members have previously been censured so that members can make an informed judgment as to how they should vote, which I am sure all members of the Labor Party will be doing.
MR SPEAKER: Yes. Continue, Mr Smyth.
MR SMYTH: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Thank you for validating that what I am saying is absolutely appropriate in this time.
MR SPEAKER: I do not get involved in the debate so I am not validating anything.
MR SMYTH: Mr Speaker, it is interesting, and you raised this issue before, because the Auditor-General actually goes to that whole issue. On page 9 she says:
… LDA did not feel bound to communicate to all registered bidders certain relevant planning information provided by ACTPLA. This led to a claim that some parties received preferential treatment.
In the context of the way that this minister has administered his portfolio and the record that he has in the community, it is absolutely appropriate to read the litany of
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