Page 1235 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 11 May 1993
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Mr Berry: I will give you another explanation of it which will probably help you.
MR CORNWELL: We will await that with great interest, I am sure. But what I am saying to you is that we have not to date had any statement from you, except a statement that it was violent. I repeat that Mr Jones has already covered that. I can also cover it, but I am sure that other people here can. "Violent" is a term that could be applied to all sorts of other activities. Rugby league has been mentioned already. Goodness gracious, if you are going to worry about violence, such as spear tackles and headhigh tackles, you will be in real trouble with Ros Kelly, your friend and supporter of the Canberra Raiders.
Mr De Domenico: She is no friend of Mr Berry's.
MR CORNWELL: Really? I am sorry.
Mr De Domenico: She is in a separate faction.
MR CORNWELL: Your non-factional colleague.
Ms Ellis: They do not spear tackle. It is illegal.
MR CORNWELL: Just settle down, Ms Ellis. I know that you get upset when I mention Ros Kelly. What about hockey? That could be a very dangerous sport too. I do not know what Ric Charlesworth, the former Labor member for Perth, might think of that comment.
Mr De Domenico: I bet you that he has had a broken leg from time to time playing hockey.
MR CORNWELL: I bet that he has. I mentioned cricket earlier. Horseracing, of course, is also dangerous. This Labor Government does not mind banning circuses with animals, but it does not do anything about horseracing here in the ACT, which sport can also be dangerous. How many jockeys might have been killed over, say, the last 10 years compared to kick boxers? These are the questions.
Mr Berry: How many assaults have happened out there?
MR CORNWELL: Just a moment, Mr Berry. I was interested in the arguments put forward by you originally and by your colleague the Attorney-General about the dangers of kick boxing on the streets. What a nonsense, what a furphy, this is. Mr Connolly, you know it as well as I do, because you did not give a very convincing speech. Under those circumstances you presumably would ban cars because they can be used for all sorts of nasty things. You would ban knives - - -
Mr Moore: Baseball bats.
MR CORNWELL: Baseball bats - indeed, weapons of any sort, Mr Moore. In fact, why do we not arrange it so that young men and perhaps young women walking the streets at night have their hands bound behind their back because they might just be aggressive? Come on! This is a nonsense. This is an absolute nonsense. Mr Connolly also - and I am surprised - - -
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