Page 1639 - Week 06 - Thursday, 13 August 1992
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This Liberal Party will stand up and continue to debate, clause by clause, if need be, any Bill which we believe is bad legislation, because the community demands that this Opposition stand up and do that. Let me assure you, Mr Wood, notwithstanding what you might think about filibustering - and you can use the word as often as you like - that we will continue to press hard the fact that this is legislation on the run; it is legislation pandering to a minority group; it is legislation which your own people, your own department, your own members, have amended time and time again since we started debating it.
The chairman of the ACT Racing Club, a gentleman your Government appointed as chairman of the TAB, said publicly that he thinks the legislation stinks. Mr Wood, you sat here in this Assembly yesterday and you said, "We do not care that only 28 per cent of the community support us; we do not care a hoot about that, because in time we are going to make sure that the rest of the community agree with us". That is what this debate is all about. This debate is all about the fact that this legislation is not worth the paper it is written on. This legislation has caused division in this community. This legislation is bad legislation. I am delighted to support my colleague's move to refer this bad legislation to a committee. Let us see what this situation is all about. Mr Wood, let me tell you - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr De Domenico, I am sorry; I have to interrupt you. It being 45 minutes after the commencement of Assembly business, the debate is interrupted in accordance with standing order 77, as amended by temporary order, and the resumption of the debate is made an order of the day for the next sitting. It became automatic at 11.33 am.
Mr Cornwell: I warned about the gag on this.
Mr Stevenson: Madam Speaker, I move:
That so much of the standing orders - - -
Mrs Grassby: It is not a gag; it is the rule.
MADAM SPEAKER: It is a rule. Order! Mr Stevenson, could you just wait a moment. I would like to speak to the Clerk.
Mr Cornwell: I knew that this sort of thing was going to happen.
Mr Wood: You have fallen over, and Tony De Domenico made you fall over.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! I would like to speak to the Clerk.
Mr De Domenico: A good try, Bill. A good try, mate. It does not work. It is called a gag.
Ms Follett: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: I am sorry; the meeting was suspended, Ms Follett. I do not believe that Mr De Domenico had a right to speak at all.
Mrs Grassby: I take a point of order. He said that it was a gag.
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