Page 5669 - Week 15 - Thursday, 10 December 2009
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Mr Seselja: There are media drinks at six.
MRS DUNNE: We have got media drinks at six. That is what it is. At least we managed to put our media drinks on at a time that did not interfere with the operations of the Assembly. We have got to clock off early today so that we can get to our drinkies and, as a result, the business of the Assembly is going to be curtailed. No sooner was the ink dry on the program—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Hargreaves): Mrs Dunne, can I interrupt you. Stop the clock, please, Clerk. Mrs Dunne, you moved the suspension of standing orders but you neglected to tell us why.
MRS DUNNE: I am telling you why.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: In that motion. You suspend standing orders to do what?
MRS DUNNE: I moved to suspend standing orders so that we can debate the adjournment.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Resume the debate. Thank you, Mrs Dunne.
MRS DUNNE: And it is important to debate this adjournment because the government should justify why they want to adjourn this motion today. And it turns out that the justification is that they want to go to drinks.
Motion (by Mr Corbell) proposed:
That the member be no longer heard.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Corbell, I am informed that the chair does have a discretion on this matter. In the event that Mrs Dunne has only 2½ minutes left, I will allow Mrs Dunne to continue.
MRS DUNNE: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. It is very important that we debate this adjournment today because what the Attorney-General is doing is adjourning an important motion about the status of the committees. The committees, as I said in my speech, are a very important element of the way that this Assembly runs. But this member, who has spent a whole lot of time ridiculing the committee process in the past, even in question time yesterday, is not prepared to put his reputation on the line and justify his comments.
Now we find that one of the reasons why we need to adjourn is that this Labor Party are so intent on getting out of here early today—and the reason has just been brought to my attention—because they have got media drinks for the executive and the media. And that is much more important than looking after workers compensation matters or things like that, all of which are being proposed to be adjourned today because this government just wants to bundy off.
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