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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (15 May) . . Page.. 1480 ..

MS TUCKER: What was that?

Mr Moore: You have to be relevant to the Bill before us. You did not see me being irrelevant.

MS TUCKER: No. Mr Moore was very relevant.

MR SPEAKER: You did explain that you were directing your comments to the Bill itself.

MS TUCKER: I do think it is relevant, and it is related, because this is about legislation for the regulation of gambling and the gambling industry in the ACT. The whole debate that has been occurring in this place and that will no doubt occur in the future, I would have thought, was relevant. But that is fine. I will just say again that I support this legislation because it is a way of dealing with one of the issues. However, it is not a holistic approach to the whole question of gambling, and I hope to see this coming from the Liberals, at least, in the near future.

MR BERRY (12.31): Mr Speaker, a lot of the irrelevant remarks in relation to this legislation have been focused around the relationship of Labor members in this place and the licensed club industry. Mr Speaker, we do not - - -

Mr Moore: And your conflict of interest.

MR BERRY: Mr Moore interjects. I thank him for his interjection, "and conflict of interest". Mr Moore also said in his speech that there is no conflict of interest, in accordance with the self-government Act, and that is where the matter lies. The fact of the matter is that the attack that has been directed against Labor Party members in this house is merely because of the success of the Labor Party, not for any other reason. There is this lime-green envy about the success of the Labor Party. It is not about conflict of interest at all. They do not care about conflict of interest; otherwise they would have dealt with other people in this place who do have a conflict of interest, and they have not done that.

What Mr Moore is concerned about is, of course, the success of the Labor Party politically. He will use any device to attack the Labor Party. The Liberal Party will do likewise. We are used to that, and we can cope with that quite well. The Greens as well would use any device to attack the Labor Party, because they feel that the Labor Party is an inadequate opponent for them. But we have proven that to be wrong. What I suggest you do is direct your attention to the Bill before the house, rather than get yourself involved in your little envy sessions about the Labor Party. It would be much easier for us to deal with the legislation, about which there is no conflict of interest.

Mrs Carnell: On a point of order: Mr Berry called for relevance previously, Mr Speaker. I think it might be - - -

MR SPEAKER: I uphold the point of order.

MR BERRY: I have finished; thank you, Mr Speaker.

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