Page 487 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 10 February 2009
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It is quite appropriate to do it in this format. Indeed, we are doing it in the right part of the notice paper. It is before the presentation of papers, before the MPIs and before the rest of business. This is the place to do it. The standing orders say that. It is appropriate to do it now, and it is quite clear that this should proceed.
Mr Corbell: The standing orders say that executive business comes on.
MR SMYTH: No, it does not say that.
Mr Corbell: It does. Executive business shall be called on.
MR SMYTH: Standing orders say that the presentation of papers comes next.
Mr Corbell: So you are going to allow presentation of papers, then?
MR SMYTH: No. We will have them afterwards.
Mr Corbell: That is what the standing orders say, Brendan.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Corbell: His whole argument is that things come before other things.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR SMYTH: I will read them slowly to you:
Prayer or reflection
Presentation of petitions
Notices and orders of the day
Questions without notice
Mr Corbell, the manager of government business in the house, does not know his standing orders. Yet again Mr Corbell is caught out. Let us have the vote. Let us bring this on. Let us deal with the matter, as one should.
MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Minister for Transport, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Minister for the Arts and Heritage) (3.02): Due to the absolutely appalling lack of logic and consistency in the presentation just made, I really do need to respond to it, although, of course, it really is not worth the energy or the time.
Mr Smyth’s entire thesis was that the standing orders, which he read slowly so that we could all understand—not understanding them himself—was that question time comes on and following question time is presentation of papers and following presentation of papers is the MPI. That is precisely the point that Mr Corbell made today, Mr Smyth.
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