Page 2961 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 14 September 1994
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ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Rugby Union
MS ELLIS (5.49): Madam Speaker, very briefly, I want to share with the members here the glee that the Tuggeranong Valley felt recently when we saw the Tuggeranong Vikings win the first grade rugby union competition in the ACT. I do not particularly like to rub in the fact that Mr Stefaniak's old team were the losers on the day. Maybe that is the reason why to date we have not heard any comment from him. It has taken the Tuggeranong Valley club 21 years to win the first grade premiership. It is an honour for me, as a member of that community, to stand up and publicly congratulate them and to congratulate the community there on getting behind the club, and to wish them all the very best for the future. It will not be long before we also see the Tuggeranong Valley win the first grade competition in many other codes, including Aussie rules. If Cowboy Neale has anything to do with it, I think we can look forward to that. I am sure that members of this place join with me in congratulating the Vikings. After a 21-year drought, it is a pretty good result.
Rugby Union
MR STEFANIAK (5.50): I have to respond to Ms Ellis and also extend my congratulations to the Tuggeranong first grade rugby union team. I am glad that Ms Ellis brought the matter up. In fact, I had the pleasure of playing with them back in 1975 when I was in my final year of university. They were then Woden-Weston. Indeed, it is good to see that a number of the people I played with then went on to form the Tuggeranong club and make it the splendid licensed club it now is.
It is also good to see success on the field come to the Tuggeranong club in a historic year for ACT rugby union. This is the last year of the old competition, which is purely ACT. Next year the Canberra Kookaburras will play in the Sydney first grade competition. They will field a first grade team, a second grade team and an under-21 team. I am sure that all members will wish them well in that endeavour. This is the last year of the old competition. Indeed, the Tuggeranong Vikings were the only club yet to win in first grade in that competition. I think it is very fitting that they did that in the final year. It was against my old club, Royals, who have now lost three on the trot; but they can console themselves with having won 16 first grade premierships, which is more than any other club in ACT history has won.
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