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To be is to do - Jean-Paul Sartre.
To do is to be - Karl Marx.
Do-be-do do-be-do do-be-do - Frank Sinatra.
That third line is about the substance of Mr Stevenson in this chamber.
DR KINLOCH (5.33): Mr Speaker, I am distressed at this whole matter. When I saw this I thought it was partly a joke and, indeed, there is that thought there. It does contain the words "in a format of commonsense, comedy and first-hand experience". It seems to me that we are taking this far too seriously. We are doing somebody over, which I think is not a pleasant thing to do, and I do not wish to be involved with it.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Sitting suspended from 5.34 to 8.00 pm
SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MS MAHER: I present Report No. 6 of 1991 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation and seek leave to make a brief statement.
Leave granted.
MS MAHER: This report details the committee's comments on the Inebriates (Amendment) Bill 1991, Intoxicated Persons (Care and Detention) Bill 1991, Interpretation (Amendment) Bill 1991 and Subordinate Laws (Amendment) Bill 1991, together with one piece of subordinate legislation. I commend the report to the Assembly.
UNLAWFUL GAMES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General), by leave: Mr Speaker, I present the Unlawful Games (Amendment) Bill 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
The Unlawful Games Act 1984 provides for the prohibition of unlawful gaming in the ACT. The Bill amends the Unlawful Games Act 1984 to provide for the legal playing of two-up on Anzac Day in the ACT subject to certain conditions.
Mrs Grassby: We would not have to do this if we had a casino.
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