Wednesday, 8 June 2022

Minister for Ports and Freight

Absence

Mr ANDREWS (Mulgrave—Premier) (14:01): I rise to inform the house that today the Assistant Treasurer will answer questions for the portfolios of the Treasurer, industrial relations and economic development. Further, the Minister for Public Transport will answer questions for consumer affairs, gaming and liquor regulation; ports and freight; and fishing and boating.

The SPEAKER: Just before calling for questions, I want to remind members while I have got a captive audience about the use of props. I am not singling any particular individuals out, but members will be well aware of the forms of this place, which say that props are inappropriate—and documents can be considered to be props if they are used incorrectly. I want members to be on notice that they are not to use props in this place. Actually, Erskine May says:

… Members should be sufficiently articulate to express what they want to say …

without the use of props, and I agree with that statement—and there are people on both sides of the house, I should say.