Page 1718 - Week 06 - Thursday, 13 August 1992
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MR STEVENSON: I think it would be known that I am not particularly a champion of the horseracing industry. I do not know much about it at all. I do not gamble in that area.
Mrs Grassby: You seem to have said a lot about it today.
MR STEVENSON: I think it is obvious why I have done that. There was not fair consultation with the industries. That is undenied. There was no consultation with the vast majority of them. Unfortunately, the consequences of this Bill will be apparent in due course.
Question put:
That this Bill, as amended, be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 10 NOES, 7
Mr Berry Mrs Carnell
Mr Connolly Mr Cornwell
Ms Ellis Mr De Domenico
Ms Follett Mr Humphries
Mrs Grassby Mr Kaine
Mr Lamont Mr Stevenson
Ms McRae Mr Westende
Mr Moore
Ms Szuty
Mr Wood
Question so resolved in the affirmative.
ADJOURNMENT
Retirement of Mr Bill Spellman
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister) (6.33): Madam Speaker, I move:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
I wish to speak on the retirement of Bill Spellman, an organiser with the Australian Workers Union. Bill was born in Sydney in 1928 and spent most of his life in the south-eastern region of New South Wales. He retired last week as an organiser of the Australian Workers Union, after a long career devoted to improving the conditions of workers in Canberra and the Eden-Monaro area.
Bill received three years of education in a small one-teacher school at Ingebyra near Jindabyne. At the age of 15 he began his first job as a picker-up in a shearing shed near Cooma. In these surrounds he first joined the AWU. In his early life, most of the winters were spent in the mountains rabbit trapping and finding casual work on farms. He had his first job as a shearer in 1946. In the same year he played a part in the campaign at a property near Junee for a 40-hour week.
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