Page 4730 - Week 15 - Thursday, 16 December 1993
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Mr Moore: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker.
MR BERRY: I told you that he was worried.
Mr Moore: Madam Speaker, I draw your attention to the standing orders and I ask you to act appropriately as a Speaker should and hold him to the standing orders.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Moore.
MR BERRY: At the inaugural meeting of the ACT Olympic 2000 Committee - a committee set up by me following Sydney's great win of the Olympics in the year 2000 - we were able to highlight many of the exciting opportunities which are available to the ACT in the lead-up to, during and after the 2000 Olympic Games. By then, if the Electoral (Amendment) Bill which was tabled today is passed, we will have a government possibly elected by above-the-line voting. Eighty per cent of the community support that.
Mr Humphries: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Humphries.
MR BERRY: Some of the many issues considered - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Just a minute, Mr Berry. We appear to have another point of order.
Mr Humphries: Madam Speaker, Mr Berry, not just today but over a number of years, has consistently breached that ruling about keeping to the point. I ask you to take appropriate action and to name Mr Berry.
MADAM SPEAKER: I am not finding anything that Mr Berry is saying not to the point. Please continue, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: It is about governing. There will be a government in the ACT.
Mr Moore: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. In fact Mr Berry is talking about the year 2000. That, of course, is a hypothetical matter and as such the question is out of order.
MR BERRY: Sydney would not be too happy about that, because they think they have just won the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. You should write them a little note.
MADAM SPEAKER: It is a spurious point of order. Continue, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: Some of the many issues considered at the meeting included the need to develop a tourism marketing strategy to maximise international visitation to the region over the next 10-year period.
Mr Cornwell: Is Sports House on the committee?
MR BERRY: I heard an interjection from Mr Cornwell over there about whether Sports House is on the committee.
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