Page 2512 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 13 August 2014

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Mr Hanson: On relevance. This is not relevant to the debate. People from federal parliament or elsewhere misspeaking is not relevant to the debate. If the minister wants to make a defence of Ms Berry that should be done in another forum, not as part of this budget debate.

MADAM SPEAKER: The budget debate is wide ranging and it covers a wide range of issues. And it has, from my limited contact with the debate this afternoon, become somewhat heated. I think that it is reasonable to use debating techniques and to draw analogies from elsewhere but perhaps in the spirit of not dwelling on the past, not raking over the past and getting on with the debate, perhaps, Ms Burch, you would do us all a service if you were more relevant to the question that the appropriation be agreed to. And then we may be able to get on with the debate with a little less acrimony.

MS BURCH: Thank you, Madam Speaker, I will. I was actually making reference to Ms Lawder’s comment. Again it was “salacious”, “fallacious”, “audacious”. There was a list of words. I am making comment on the comments in Ms Lawder’s second speech.

MADAM SPEAKER: Sit down please, Ms Burch. Ms Burch, I actually asked you to be relevant to the question that the appropriation be agreed to. And I am not making a ruling, I am actually appealing to you so that we can get the debate back on track rather than have a rehash of the issues that, from where I was sitting somewhere else, were pretty unedifying. I am not making a ruling at this stage but you might press me enough just to force me to make a ruling, but I am appealing you to try to get the debate back on track.

MS BURCH: Madam Speaker, I will. I absolutely agree with you that most of the comments made in this place have been unedifying and I will no longer go to some of them that were made by the Canberra Liberals. But I agree with you wholeheartedly that they were absolutely unedifying this afternoon.

The appropriations for Education and Training are sound, they are robust, they provide education across all fields, from early childhood education and care, primary school, high school, to college and training years. I commend the line to the Assembly.

Ms Berry: Madam Speaker, I am seeking your guidance. I would like to make—

MADAM SPEAKER: You have already spoken twice.

Ms Berry: Yes. I want to make a brief statement if that is okay.

MADAM SPEAKER: No, there is no scope for making a brief statement. If you want to make a statement under standing order 46, there has to be no question before the house. At the moment there is a question before the house. You could make a statement at the end of the debate or you could make a statement in the adjournment debate. But at the moment the question before the house is that the appropriation be agreed to. You have already spoken twice on the appropriation.


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