House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
2010-11-23 Daily Xml

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CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:33): As a supplementary, if there is not a Cranfield campus, why did the Premier tell the National Press Club that there was?

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The Hon. M.D. RANN (Ramsay—Premier, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change) (14:33): What we did—listen to him.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Do you want to hear the answer? Be quiet!

The Hon. M.D. RANN: The anger of the member for Norwood! Will the real next leader of the Liberal Party please stand up? Come on—last time you did.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. M.D. RANN: It was like deja vu. Last time the session was on, it was like deja vu: Martin Hamilton-Smith suddenly saw a glimpse—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr PISONI: Point of order.

The SPEAKER: Member for Unley, point of order.

Mr PISONI: On 11 November, Madam Speaker, you upheld a point of order by the member for Croydon, who pointed out standing order 104—

The SPEAKER: What is your point of order, member for Unley?

Mr PISONI: —Minister for Transport, that members must address the chair and not TV cameras. I ask that you uphold that point of order with the Premier.

The Hon. M.D. RANN: So, we have in the Torrens Building—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. M.D. RANN: Here we go!

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr PISONI: Point of order, I haven't heard your ruling.

The SPEAKER: I don't think there is a standing order under that.

Mr PISONI: I haven't heard your ruling.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Be quiet! The standing order is not that they should not address the cameras, that they should address the chair, and I feel included, so it's okay.

The Hon. M.D. RANN: The Torrens Building was furnished to house Carnegie Mellon University with a small campus for masters degree students, and University College London, the first time in more than 200 years that UCL has gone offshore, just like the Royal Institution of Science where Martin Hamilton-Smith, the member for Waite, was last night in celebration of its first anniversary. He congratulated me today on the excellent work it is doing with the Australian Science Media Centre. And we also had a small branch of Cranfield based there, organising drawback from the university it is driven by in England.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: If the member for Waite and a few of his colleagues do not be quiet, I will disband question time. I hope that those young people in the gallery are not taking too much notice of this, and behave accordingly in their classrooms, because I am sure they would not last half a day.

The Hon. K.O. Foley interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The Treasurer will be quiet also, or he will go as well. The member for Newland.