Page 296 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 1 March 1994
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Mr Berry: You do not understand this, do you?
Mr Humphries: No, no; you do not.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MRS CARNELL: Does the Minister then accept that the major way that incentives are offered on racetracks, or via TABs in this country, is via a better dividend? If the Minister has no assurance that VITAB will not offer a better dividend, how can he be confident that the letter that he got from VITAB is worth even the paper it is written on?
MR BERRY: You are kidding yourself. You do not understand the business, for a start. The facts of the matter are that VITAB have said to ACTTAB, "We will not offer inducements". What you are suggesting is that they might offer an inducement. The letter is on the table. It is on the record here. Lay on the table the evidence that inducements have been offered and I will look into it. If you do not have the evidence, if you cannot put up - - -
Mr De Domenico: Will the dividends be the same?
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: Mr De Domenico, settle down. You will get your turn, like Mr Kaine. It is Mrs Carnell's turn to cop a burst. If you do not have the evidence, if you cannot put up, shut up.
Lennox House
MR MOORE: My question is directed to Mr Wood as Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning, and particularly as the Minister with responsibility for ACT heritage. What action are you taking to assess and protect the heritage value of old Lennox House, which was originally used by workers during the establishment of the national capital?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, quite properly, primary consideration of the heritage listing, or otherwise, of Lennox House is in the hands of the ACT Heritage Council. That council has carried out a detailed examination of Lennox House and the issues surrounding it, and I understand that on Friday last it issued a statement on it. I have seen that statement; but, at this stage, I have not lined it up with all the issues. There are - - -
Mr Cornwell: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I cannot hear the Minister clearly because - - -
MR WOOD: Because of Mr De Domenico.
Mr Cornwell: No; because Mr Connolly is advising Mr Berry over there on matters - - -
Mrs Carnell: He is trying to tell him about dividends.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
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