Page 1517 - Week 05 - Thursday, 18 April 1991
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I believe that it is forever associated with Anzac, and that is why it is appropriate that the game should be legalised in conjunction with Anzac Day. That is what this does - no more and no less. For Mr Connolly, Mr Berry and Mr Moore to deal with this matter as though it is a trivial matter - - -
Mr Collaery: No, not Michael.
MR KAINE: I withdraw that in connection with Mr Moore.
Ms Follett: Sit down.
MR KAINE: I do not need direction from you. It is the lack of comment that came from your contemporaries. They are the ones that should have been told to sit down. I did not hear you telling them to sit down. You sat there and listened to them. Mr Connolly for the first time showed that he can lose his temper. You are losing your cool, mate; watch it, because she will get you if you do it again.
I believe that this might have been put appropriately under the heading of heritage legislation. For that reason I support it, and I know that the bulk of the ACT community supports it. Mr Berry and Mr Connolly are isolated entirely in terms of public opinion on this issue.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (11.26), in reply: Mr Speaker, I expected that this debate would have some sombre and some light-hearted moments. It strayed, thanks to Mr Berry; but I will return to that. On the sombre aspect, the Bill is timed appropriately, and I am sure community sentiment would agree with that. I wholeheartedly endorse the comments in the Assembly of my other colleagues and Mr Moore.
Mr Speaker, this is a commemorative event. I think Mr Kaine put it very aptly when he described it as heritage-type legislation to commemorate the day when returned service people, relatives, friends and the general public join together to remember the people who did not return from the war and to commemorate the comradeship, bravery and deeds of service in war. It is with some pleasure that I have introduced this Bill. It provides Australians particularly, and returned service men and women, with the legal right to commemorate the comradeship of the day.
Everyone knows that two-up is a tradition, and it is for that reason that the definition in the Bill is one of those unique definitions in law. It says:
"two-up" means the game commonly known as two-up.
I can think of no more apt way to put it than that. The Chief Minister, when he refers to heritage, clearly indicates that this Bill calls upon the maintenance of an
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