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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 9 Hansard (7 September) . . Page.. 3111 ..

amendments to the Electoral Act at a later date or, if they do not want to do this, I am willing to prepare a private members bill on this matter.

I do not really like the way that we are being forced to rush through this at the moment. Basically we are being asked to retrospectively remove requirements to disclose-

Mr Osborne: For the last 10 years.

MS TUCKER: Yes. Mr Osborne says, "For the last 10 years." But the point is that is the situation and this is a reaction to something that has been here for so long. So I will not support what the ALP is doing today but I would certainly welcome some further action on this issue.

MR QUINLAN (12.20 am): Mr Speaker, I will just recap a little. Earlier today we had quite a dissertation from Mr Moore and Mr Humphries in relation to hypocrisy and what we should or should not abstain from because of quite overt support in relation to the Labor Party.

I have a list relating to Ms Carnell's friends of Kate campaign. We have MBA Land. So you really must be precluded from or abstain from voting on anything associated with MBA Land, or that might have been associated with MBA Land because they might be losers as well in some particular decision. The list also includes Air Champagne, Tocumwal.

Here is a good one-FAI Insurance Group, $9,500. This was about the time that FAI were redeveloping the Westpac building, now called the Waldorf-a very imaginative title-and they were given $8,500 stamp duty relief. So, that left a net $1,000 I suppose. It so happens that FAI at that stage was run by Mr Rodney Adler. He is a friend of Mr Ian Knop-I met them together, actually. Mr Knop was a guy that had the freebee-the embassy in Sydney-wasn't he? A thousand a month we paid him. And he is the guy who is the chairman of the Cosmos even though he confesses himself that he knows nothing about football and lives in Sydney.

Mr Humphries: He is not the chairman of the Cosmos anymore.

MR QUINLAN: Well, he was for some considerable time.

Mr Osborne: Ian is a good human being.

MR QUINLAN: I appreciate that. But in fact, as fate would have it, Mr Knop, through Profile Management Consultants, contributed to the campaign of Bill Stefaniak. It would appear that some of the supporters of Kate decided that they would support Harold Hird and Bill Stefaniak.

Mr Rugendyke interjecting-

MR QUINLAN: It was something to do with Ginninderra. You might have frightened them, David.

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