❓ A heated exchange in WA Parliament where Mr. Johnson questions Mr. McGowan about observing a protest, leading to accusations and a withdrawal of a remark.
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The minister said earlier in relation to my previous question that he had observed the Rally Australia protest last night, and that he had listened to the words of the Leader of the Opposition at the protest rally. The minister also said that he was a bit nervous about going outside to meet the couple of hundred or so protesters. Dr G.I. Gallop : He didn’t say that! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, he did. Was the minister the person in the darkened Premier’s outer office with the lights turned off peering through half-closed shutters during the Rally Australia protest last night; was the minister the person we could see? Mr M. McGOWAN
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Members might be interested to know that the shadow Minister for Tourism is also the shadow Minister for Police. It appears that he gets around outside the building looking in people’s windows. The shadow Minister for Police is also a peeping Tom! Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Dr G.I. Gallop : He didn’t say that! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, he did. Was the minister the person in the darkened Premier’s outer office with the lights turned off peering through half-closed shutters during the Rally Australia protest last night; was the minister the person we could see? Mr M. McGOWAN replied : Members might be interested to know that the shadow Minister for Tourism is also the shadow Minister for Police. It appears that he gets around outside the building looking in people’s windows. The shadow Minister for Police is also a peeping Tom! Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, he did. Was the minister the person in the darkened Premier’s outer office with the lights turned off peering through half-closed shutters during the Rally Australia protest last night; was the minister the person we could see? Mr M. McGOWAN replied : Members might be interested to know that the shadow Minister for Tourism is also the shadow Minister for Police. It appears that he gets around outside the building looking in people’s windows. The shadow Minister for Police is also a peeping Tom! Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied : Members might be interested to know that the shadow Minister for Tourism is also the shadow Minister for Police. It appears that he gets around outside the building looking in people’s windows. The shadow Minister for Police is also a peeping Tom! Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Members might be interested to know that the shadow Minister for Tourism is also the shadow Minister for Police. It appears that he gets around outside the building looking in people’s windows. The shadow Minister for Police is also a peeping Tom! Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Dr G.I. Gallop : He didn’t say that! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, he did. Was the minister the person in the darkened Premier’s outer office with the lights turned off peering through half-closed shutters during the Rally Australia protest last night; was the minister the person we could see? Mr M. McGOWAN replied : Members might be interested to know that the shadow Minister for Tourism is also the shadow Minister for Police. It appears that he gets around outside the building looking in people’s windows. The shadow Minister for Police is also a peeping Tom! Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Yes, he did. Was the minister the person in the darkened Premier’s outer office with the lights turned off peering through half-closed shutters during the Rally Australia protest last night; was the minister the person we could see? Mr M. McGOWAN replied : Members might be interested to know that the shadow Minister for Tourism is also the shadow Minister for Police. It appears that he gets around outside the building looking in people’s windows. The shadow Minister for Police is also a peeping Tom! Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied : Members might be interested to know that the shadow Minister for Tourism is also the shadow Minister for Police. It appears that he gets around outside the building looking in people’s windows. The shadow Minister for Police is also a peeping Tom! Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Members might be interested to know that the shadow Minister for Tourism is also the shadow Minister for Police. It appears that he gets around outside the building looking in people’s windows. The shadow Minister for Police is also a peeping Tom! Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Several members interjected. Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The people of Hillarys need to be very nervous about their local member of Parliament. You can imagine it, Mr Speaker: he walks up and down the streets of Sorrento looking in people’s windows. He gets around outside the building - Withdrawal of Remark Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister should be ashamed of himself. He is breaching parliamentary standards and the standing orders of this house in his attempt to avoid answering a question by implying that I have done something wrong. Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct him to answer the question. It is a very simple question. Was he the person in the Premier’s outer office last night with the lights off? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
The SPEAKER : I heard the member for Warren-Blackwood speak while I was on my feet, so I call him to order for the second time. The minister’s expression about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom is unparliamentary, and I direct that he withdraw that comment and answer the question as quickly as possible. Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I withdraw the comment about the member for Hillarys being a peeping Tom. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : What I will say is that apparently the member gets around outside people’s houses and looks in their windows or he looks in the windows of parliamentary offices. Point of Order Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I have pretty thick skin, but the minister - Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Perth to order for the first time. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The minister has ignored your ruling, Mr Speaker. He has just implied that I peer in people’s windows, which can be related only to a peeping Tom. I did not see him last night, but he was seen and I want an answer to my question. The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
The SPEAKER : There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr M. McGOWAN : When I became Minister for Tourism, I thought I had better find out what my opposite number, the member for Hillarys, was doing on tourism issues. In the past two and a half weeks I have asked some people in the industry whether they could recall anything the shadow Minister for Tourism might have said or done about this important industry that employs about 80 000 Western Australians. The only thing anyone in the industry could remember about the member for Hillarys is that whenever he went to an event, he would always say that he would knock off the member for Cottesloe as leader. That is the only thing they could remember him saying - that he would become the leader of the Liberal Party at some point. Let us hope that he fulfils his destiny to become leader of the Liberal Party at some point in the future. It is a ridiculous, stupid, inane and juvenile question and I will not dignify it with an answer.
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