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Hansard 17 Aug 1999 17 Aug 1999 Legislative Assembly 3019 TUESDAY, 17 AUGUST 1999 PRIVILEGE Referral of Matter to Members' Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee Mr BEANLAND (Indooroopilly—LP) Mr SPEAKER (Hon. R. K. Hollis, Redcliffe) (9.32 a.m.): Mr Speaker, I rise on a matter of read prayers and took the chair at 9.30 a.m. privilege. During the last sitting on 21 July, I brought to your attention by correspondence the clear intent of the Minister for Families, ASSENT TO BILLS Youth and Community Care and Minister for Mr SPEAKER: Order! I have to inform the Disability Services to deliberately mislead the House that I have received from His Excellency House on 20 July in relation to the the Governor a letter in respect of assent to Government's reported expenditure of $30m certain Bills, the contents of which will be injected into unmet needs when in fact the incorporated in the records of Parliament— Minister had spent only $10.4m, while the $11.6m commitment to the Basil Stafford GOVERNMENT HOUSE QUEENSLAND Centre was made over a four-year period and not a one-year period. Mr Speaker, in view of 2 August 1999 your refusal to refer the Minister to the The Honourable R. K. Hollis, MLA attention of the Members' Ethics and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Parliamentary Privileges Committee and in Parliament House view of report No. 24 of the Members' Ethics George Street and Parliamentary Privileges Committee, which BRISBANE QLD 4000 highlights the duty of a member of Parliament Dear Mr Speaker to not mislead this House as being wider than I hereby acquaint the Legislative Assembly that a duty to simply not make false or incorrect the following Bills, having been passed by the statements, I hereby move— Legislative Assembly and having been "That the Minister for Families, Youth presented for the Royal Assent, were assented and Community Care and Minister for to in the name of Her Majesty The Queen on 29 Disability Services be referred to the July 1999: Members' Ethics and Parliamentary "A Bill for an Act to amend the Fossicking Privileges Committee for deliberately Act 1994, the Land and Resources misleading the House." Tribunal Act 1999, the Mineral Resources Act 1989, and the Native Title Question—That Mr Beanland's motion be (Queensland) State Provisions agreed to—put; and the House divided— Amendment Act (No. 2) 1998 AYES, 43—Beanland, Black, Borbidge, Connor, Cooper, E. Cunningham, Dalgleish, Davidson, Elliott, A Bill for an Act relating to the ineffective Feldman, Gamin, Goss, Grice, Healy, Hobbs, Horan, conferral of jurisdiction on the Federal Johnson, Kingston, Knuth, Laming, Lester, Lingard, Court of Australia and the Family Court of Littleproud, Malone, Mitchell, Nelson, Paff, Pratt, Australia about certain matters Prenzler, Quinn, Rowell, Santoro, Seeney, Simpson, A Bill for an Act to request the amendment Slack, Springborg, Stephan, Turner, Veivers, of the Australia Acts 1986 in connection Watson, Wellington. Tellers: Baumann, Hegarty with proposed constitutional arrangements NOES, 43—Attwood, Barton, Beattie, Bligh, Boyle, to establish the Commonwealth of Braddy, Bredhauer, Briskey, Clark, J. Cunningham, Australia as a republic" D'Arcy, Edmond, Elder, Fenlon, Foley, Fouras, Gibbs, The Bill is hereby transmitted to the Legislative Hamill, Hayward, Lavarch, Lucas, Mackenroth, Assembly, to be numbered and forwarded to McGrady, Mickel, Mulherin, Musgrove, Nelson-Carr, the proper Officer for enrolment, in the manner Nuttall, Palaszczuk, Pitt, Reeves, Reynolds, Roberts, required by law. Robertson, Rose, Schwarten, Spence, Struthers, Yours sincerely Welford, Wells, Wilson. Tellers: Sullivan, Purcell (sgd) Peter Arnison Pair: Pearce, Sheldon The numbers being equal, Mr Speaker Governor cast his vote with the Noes. Resolved in the negative. REGISTER OF MEMBERS' INTERESTS Report PRIVILEGE Mr SPEAKER: Order! Honourable Member for Woodridge; Chairman of members, I lay upon the table of the House Committees the 11th report on the Register of Members' Mr D'ARCY (Woodridge—ALP) Interests. (9.39 a.m.): I rise on a matter of privilege. The 3020 Motions of Condolence 17 Aug 1999 last two weeks have seen some media go into Mr WELLS: Mr Speaker, that statement is one of their frenzies with misleading reports, untrue and offensive and I ask that it be some of which have been defamatory to me withdrawn. and have included uncalled for personal Mr SPEAKER: Order! We will not have a attacks on my family. Since then, two inquiries debate on the issue now. I call the honourable have started. I intend to cooperate fully with member for Merrimac. both inquiries. I have been advised that, until these inquiries are concluded and I am cleared Mr QUINN: As a result of an FOI of any wrongdoing, I should not be speaking application to the Department of Justice and publicly on these issues. I would like to thank Attorney-General, an Education Queensland my constituents, staff, family and friends for document signed by the Minister, dated by the their faith in me and assure all members of the Minister, and with notes in the Minister's own Labor Party of my loyalty. handwriting was provided to the Opposition yesterday. At the same time, the Minister for As I have mentioned, two inquiries are Education provided this information to the presently being held and I wish to inform the House yesterday in the form of a House that, acting on advice received from the supplementary answer to the question. Mr Clerk of the Parliament, I have stood aside Speaker, I will be writing to you to refer this from all official duties as Deputy Speaker and deliberate attempt to mislead the House to the Chairman of Committees until these inquiries Members' Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges are concluded. Committee. PRIVILEGE MOTIONS OF CONDOLENCE Minister for Education Deaths of Mr C. R. Rappolt and Mr R. B. J. Pilbeam Mr QUINN (Merrimac—LP) (Deputy Hon. P. D. BEATTIE (Brisbane Central— Leader of the Liberal Party) (9.40 a.m.): I rise ALP) (Premier) (9.42 a.m.), by leave without on a matter of privilege. In answer to question on notice No. 673 about school uniforms, the notice: I move— Minister for Education stated that there was no "1. That this House desires to place on written departmental documentation of advice record its appreciation of the services to the Minister on this matter. As a result of an rendered to this State by the late FOI application to the Department of Justice Charles Robert Rappolt, a former and Attorney-General, an Education Member of the Parliament of Queensland document signed by the Minister, Queensland. dated by the Minister and with notes in the 2. That Mr Speaker be requested to Minister's own handwriting was provided— convey to the family of the deceased Mr WELLS: Mr Speaker, I rise to a point gentleman the above resolution, of order. The honourable member is together with an expression of the misleading the House. There is no completed sympathy of the Members of the FOI application. The document was made Parliament of Queensland, for the available by me voluntarily in a supplementary loss they have sustained." answer to the question on notice. It is not I also move— available under FOI. "1. That this House desires to place on Opposition members interjected. record its appreciation of the services rendered to this State by the late Mr SPEAKER: Order! How can I hear the Reginald Byron Jarvis Pilbeam, a point of order? I call the member for Merrimac. former Member of the Parliament of Mr QUINN: As a result of an FOI Queensland. application to the Department of Justice and 2. That Mr Speaker be requested to Attorney-General— convey to the family of the deceased Mr WELLS: Mr Speaker, the honourable gentleman the above resolution, member is repeating a misrepresentation. together with an expression of the There is no completed FOI application. The sympathy of the Members of the document is made available by me voluntarily. Parliament of Queensland, for the loss they have sustained." Mr QUINN: You tried to stop the FOI officer. In relation to Charles Rappolt, who was elected to this Parliament along with all of us Mr Borbidge: You misled the House. on 13 June 1998, it is fair to say that, to an 17 Aug 1999 Motions of Condolence 3021 extent, it is sad and unfortunate that Charles stood up there to tell us more should be done Rappolt was ill prepared for life as a politician. for junior sports. In a few short months last year, he joined the In his maiden parliamentary speech, One Nation Party just before the election, Charles stood up for the battling small miners. became the party's candidate for Mulgrave, He told the House that he had come to won the seat in the 13 June State election and Parliament to clean up the mining mess left by resigned less than five months later on 4 the previous Government, which had November. He said that stress, enormous discouraged mining and had caused personal pressures and ill health had become unemployment in the area. He was the One too much for him to cope with and that he had Nation spokesman for Mines, Energy and not given enough thought to his decision to Regional Development and Tourism, Sport enter politics. That is what Charles himself and Racing. He was also a member of the said. He complained that there had been Legal, Constitutional and Administrative death threats, people spat at him and the Review Committee. media had attacked him. The effect on his family life had been devastating and he had Mr Rappolt was born on 23 August 1939 sent his young son to stay with the boy's in Cairns.
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