Page 4426 - Week 14 - Thursday, 1 December 1994

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Mr Stevenson: It is best to ignore me for a while, rather than make a big issue of it. That would be the logical thing to do. I will try to have it written into the standing orders.

MADAM SPEAKER: I am standing, Mr Stevenson.

Mr Stevenson: It will read, "If Dennis complains about this farcical parliament when he is trying to be gagged, it is best to ignore him for a little while".

MADAM SPEAKER: I am standing, Mr Stevenson. Order!

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 7   NOES, 9

Mrs Carnell Mr Berry

Mr Cornwell Mr Connolly

Mr De Domenico Ms Ellis

Mr Humphries Ms Follett

Mr Kaine  Mrs Grassby

Mr Stefaniak Mr Lamont

Mr Stevenson Ms McRae

  Ms Szuty

  Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the negative.

TOURISM AND A.C.T. PROMOTION - STANDING COMMITTEE

Discussion Paper on Options for a Future Inquiry

MR STEFANIAK (11.42): Madam Speaker, I ask for leave of the Assembly to present a discussion paper titled "Options for a Future Inquiry" and to move a motion in relation to the paper.

Leave granted.

MR STEFANIAK: I present a discussion paper from the Standing Committee on Tourism and ACT Promotion titled "Options for a Future Inquiry, Tourism and Sport in the ACT", and I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the paper.

The staging of sporting events in the ACT has the potential not only to attract large numbers of games participants and tourists to the ACT but also to generate a lot of income for the ACT. The ACT is ideally suited for the staging of sporting events and for encouraging people from interstate and overseas to come here and spend their tourist dollars and participate in sporting events. It has been estimated that a third of the tourists

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