Page 3260 - Week 11 - Thursday, 12 September 1991
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MR DUBY: My question is: What percentage of tenants in public Housing Trust properties are in receipt of a rental rebate? Do not say that you do not know. You should, if you are a responsible Minister for Housing.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I will not allow that question, Mr Duby. I asked the Chief Minister to give you leniency for a supplementary question to Mr Berry. I thought you were trying to ask that.
MR DUBY: I did not ask the first question to Mr Berry. I did not realise that we could ask supplementary questions 30 minutes later, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your help, Mr Duby.
SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIQUOR
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
MR SPEAKER: I have received letters from Mr Connolly, Mr Jensen and Dr Kinloch - - -
Mr Connolly: Mr Speaker, you have not received a letter from Mr Connolly in relation to a matter of public importance, although I may start the practice.
MR SPEAKER: My apologies. I have received letters from Mr Collaery, Mr Jensen and Dr Kinloch, all proposing that a matter of public importance be submitted to the Assembly. In accordance with standing order 79, I have determined that the matter proposed by Dr Kinloch be submitted to the Assembly, namely:
The need for an early, independent inquiry into the sale and distribution of liquor, including the licensing of premises in the Australian Capital Territory.
DR KINLOCH (3.13): First, I wish to declare an interest. I am a member of three clubs which serve liquor. I therefore note that I am not opposed to the sale and consumption of alcohol. I am not, nor have I ever been - this sounds like America in the 1950s - a teetotaller. Given my multicultural background and genes, I feel at home with beer, wine and spirits, especially Guinness, scotch, bourbon, Irish whisky and my sometimes favourite drink, brandy and dry ginger. Perhaps in this debate, each member will wish to reveal his or her favourite tipple. Yet I am increasingly aware, as the result of the varied responsibilities of life as an MLA in the ACT, of the range of troubles associated with the most dangerous and damaging drug in our society in the ACT - alcohol.
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