North Adelaide Public Golf Course

The Hon. D.G. PISONI (Unley) (14:58): My question is to the member for Adelaide. Does the member for Adelaide support the government's North Adelaide Public Golf Course Bill 2025?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Leader of Government Business has the call. Member for Unley can you sit down? The Leader of Government Business has the call.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: First and foremost the bill is before the house. Second, the member, like every other member, will know how people vote in the house, and that question is clearly out of order under standing orders and Erskine May.

The SPEAKER: I uphold the point of order.

Mr TEAGUE: On the point of order: to the standing order 96 2. that the Manager of Government Business raises, this is a matter that has been addressed in the Third Edition of Blackmore at pages 200 and 201. A member may be asked a question, including specifically in relation to a bill before the house, because it is public business. The member in responding may not debate but may give an answer to the house in relation to the member's view on the bill. Does the member support the bill: yes or no?

The SPEAKER: The member for Adelaide is not responsible to the house for the bill. The member for MacKillop has the call.

The Hon. D.G. PISONI: Point of order, sir: I refer you to an incident that happened in this place on 4 June 2009, when the Hon. R.J. McEwen, the member for Mount Gambier, who was a minister in the Labor government, asked a question related to travel of the member for Hammond. Mr Venning raised a point of order objecting to such a question. The Speaker, the Hon. Jack Snelling at that time, said:

Order! Any member can be asked a question if the Speaker thinks that the member has a responsibility to the house for the matter about which a question is asked.

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley can resume his seat. You have just answered your own question: 'if the Speaker thinks the member has responsibility for the question'. I do not.

The Hon. D.G. Pisoni interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley can leave the chamber until the end of question time. You can leave.

The honourable member for Unley having withdrawn from the chamber: