Page 1266 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Mr Stanhope: I did not say those things at all. I said when any promise that a government makes is implemented—we made a whole stack of other promises apart from those we made with the Greens.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Stanhope. You may recall that we had this conversation last week. I think you need to resort to standing order 46.
Mr Stanhope: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I will do that at an appropriate time, to correct the misleading of the Assembly that is going on at the moment.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Mr Seselja has the floor.
Mrs Dunne: A point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SESELJA: The Chief Minister cannot—
MR SPEAKER: Sorry, Mr Seselja. Mrs Dunne has a point of order.
Mrs Dunne: Mr Stanhope said as he was sitting down that he would use the standing orders to correct the misleading of the Assembly. He clearly implied that Mr Seselja had misled the Assembly. That is unparliamentary and he needs to withdraw.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope?
Mr Stanhope: On the point of order, actually, on a motion of dissent in you, I would have thought that, in a free-ranging debate in which you are being accused of all sorts of things, of actually abusing your position in the chair, of not acting with integrity or objectively in the rulings that you make, it is quite appropriate for me to say, in the context of that debate, that the Leader of the Opposition, in attacking you, is misleading the Assembly. I would have thought that, in the context of a substantive motion of dissent, I could say that.
MR SESELJA: You’re wrong again.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Seselja! You don’t have the floor.
Mr Stanhope: That is on the point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: I am happy to rule on this.
MR SESELJA: I do not think you need my help on this one, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: The forms of the place are, Mr Stanhope, that misleading the Assembly is considered unparliamentary language, and such charges should be made in a substantive motion. I invite you to withdraw.
Mr Stanhope: That is my point of order: there is a substantive motion before the chair.
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