Page 1349 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 25 March 2009
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MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Burch): The question is that Mr Coe’s amendment be agreed to.
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) (5.27): Just speaking on the amendment, the government will not support this. Has my amendment been moved yet? I am totally confused.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: No; we had a mix-up. We need to deal with Mr Coe’s and then we need to—
MR STANHOPE: I cannot even move mine until his is dealt with. I am just a bit intrigued as to the order of this. He did not move it; then I did. Has mine been withdrawn? Has mine been unilaterally ruled out of order?
Mrs Dunne: It has not been dealt with.
MR STANHOPE: I moved an amendment and I am now told that I did not. I just wonder what the process is for deciding that my amendment was not moved. I am not quite sure by what authority the Speaker determines that an amendment I moved was not moved.
Mrs Dunne: Because there is one amendment on the table and you cannot move yours until the other one is dealt with.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne, there was a mix-up. At the end of Mr Coe’s speech he did move his motion. Before we were able to clarify that, Mr Stanhope tabled an amendment. What I would like to do now is deal with Mr Coe’s amendment and then move straight to Mr Stanhope’s amendment.
MR STANHOPE: I will speak on Mr Coe’s amendment, but—
Mr Seselja: You have already spoken, haven’t you?
MR STANHOPE: I did not know it had been. I am just confused.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Given that it was a mix-up, is leave granted—
Mrs Dunne: We will give you leave to speak again.
MR STANHOPE: I do not know how I can speak to a motion that had not been moved or circulated.
Mr Seselja: You spoke to the original motion.
MR STANHOPE: Mr Coe attempted to move a motion which had not—none of us knew the wording to it; it had not been distributed. There was a stuff-up. Mr Coe got a bit ahead of himself.
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