Page 887 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 16 June 1992
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RACING MINISTERS CONFERENCE
Ministerial Statement
Debate resumed from 21 May 1992, on motion by Mr Berry:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MR DE DOMENICO (10.37): Madam Speaker, I take note of the time of the evening and also take note of what the Minister had to say in his statement. There is very little I need to say, except that, yes, the Minister made some quite interesting and motherhood statements about the importance of the ACT racing industry. I agree with those statements - although, after what Mr Wood said earlier on this evening, jockeys in the ACT might find themselves not being able to use whips in the very near future.
Mr Humphries: Or horses.
MR DE DOMENICO: Or horses, as Mr Humphries interjects quite funnily. In that case it would be very interesting to see where we would get the $6m that Mr Berry has already suggested comes from the racing industry from time to time into this Territory. I endorse Mr Berry's anxiousness about getting principal club status for the ACT Racing Club. What worries me, though, is why the AJC in New South Wales has so far not voted for the ACT having principal club status. I will be asking some questions about that in the future.
I believe that the racing industry here ought to be fantastic for the owners, the trainers and, most importantly, the punters. Perhaps the administrators should be the last on my list of people we ought to be satisfying. One hopes that we do satisfy the owners, the trainers and, more importantly, the punters. Madam Speaker, the former Chief Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, has asked certain questions in relation to the racing industry and officers of the Office of Sport and Recreation, so I think it is perhaps prudent of me to now close my comments by suggesting that we will be making further comments once those questions have been answered.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
JobMatch
MS ELLIS (10.40): I would like to bring to the attention of this Assembly the work of JobMatch, which is the supported employment division of the Koomarri Association and City Parks, in the training and employment of people with intellectual disabilities. JobMatch's mandate is to place people with intellectual disabilities from within Koomarri's existing sheltered workshops into integrated employment options. JobMatch has been working with City Parks since
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