Members

MEMBER FOR UNLEY, NAMING

The SPEAKER: I name the member for Unley. Member for Unley, sit down, you are named. Do you wish to be heard in explanation?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: I have named the member for Unley. You deliberately were defying me. Do you have an explanation?

Mr PISONI (Unley) (15:00): I do, Madam Speaker. The Premier deliberately used an answer in question time to—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! He will be heard in silence.

Mr PISONI: —raise the private business of the Leader of the Opposition, when telling people earlier that his trips to Puglia were private business and not the business of this parliament, and I was simply making a point that the Treasurer himself has claimed his son as a spouse for travelling and intimating what is the Premier's point.

The Hon. K.O. Foley: What's your point?

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr PISONI: It doesn't matter. It's all in Hansard, mate, it doesn't matter.

The SPEAKER: Order! Have you finished your explanation? The Minister for Transport.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Energy) (15:01): I move:

That the explanation not be accepted.

Motion carried.

The SPEAKER: You are asked to leave the house, member for Unley.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! I will put the question formally. The honourable member will be suspended from the house.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Energy) (15:02): I move:

That the member be suspended from the service of the house.

I do point out that, under the standing orders, he should already have removed himself.

Motion carried.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member is suspended from the house.

Mr Williams interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! There is no argument about this, member for MacKillop. The member for Unley will remove himself from the house.

The honourable member for Unley having withdrawn from the chamber:

Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:05): Standing Order 139, Suspension of a Member—and I am reading from the Standing Orders, Madam Speaker:

When a Member has been named by the Speaker or the Chairman of Committees:

1. the Member has the right to be heard in explanation or apology;

2. unless the explanation or apology is accepted by the House, the Member then withdraws from the Chamber.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The question was put to a vote; in fact, twice. Twice it was put to a vote. If you did not hear it was because you were making too much noise, and serves you right. Sit down, member for MacKillop, you are questioning the role of the Speaker. We will have another question. The member for Waite.