Page 2753 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 August 1990
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Mr Wood: No, it was not.
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, it was. It is on the record. He asked the question.
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MR STEVENSON: My question is to Mr Duby. It has now been a month since the applications were received from those companies making money from misery by selling pornographic videos. The figures that were received with the applications will be known to the department and to Mr Duby. Would Mr Duby be prepared to reveal to this Assembly and the people of Canberra how much money they can expect to receive from those figures that have been received?
MR DUBY: This, I guess, is a follow-up to the question that was asked on 8 August this year in relation to a suggested shortfall in the amount of revenue to be received.
Mr Stevenson: It is totally different. I would like to know how much money.
MR DUBY: How much money has actually been received this financial year?
Mr Stevenson: No, how much will be received from the figures indicated.
MR DUBY: What Mr Stevenson is asking, of course, is for me to have my hands on absolute figures which I just do not have here at the moment.
Mr Stevenson: Give or take a few thousand dollars, even tens. I will allow a couple of hundred thousand difference.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: That is generous of you, Mr Stevenson. Order!
MR DUBY: I shall undertake - - -
Mr Stevenson: Give it within a million dollars - four million or one million?
MR DUBY: What Mr Stevenson is asking for is for us to extrapolate the returns that have been received so far this financial year into a full financial year's figures.
Mr Stevenson: Exactly.
MR DUBY: Of course, Mr Acting Speaker, you will know that such a situation is not possible because, for various reasons, the Commissioner for Revenue has many powers of
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