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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 3670 ..

The Assembly voted -

Ayes, 6   		Noes, 10

Mr Berry  		Ms Carnell
Mr Corbell  		Mr Cornwell
Mr Hargreaves  		Mr Hird
Mr Quinlan  		Mr Humphries
Mr Stanhope  		Mr Moore
Mr Wood  		Mr Osborne
 			Mr Rugendyke
 			Mr Smyth
 			Mr Stefaniak
 			Ms Tucker

Question so resolved in the negative.

Amendment negatived.

MR QUINLAN (5.28): I move amendment No 6 circulated in my name:

When I came to this place three years ago I believed that what I would be doing here would go to the core of the activity which comes under the umbrella of community and I believed that others would also consider that they were here for the benefit of the community. Yes, we would be involved in politics - politics that are not always popular with the citizenry that we wish to serve, politics that do afford the opportunity to make populist capital; hence the discussion before of club democracy. Nevertheless, I thought that we, collectively, believed that we were deeply involved in the community and were involved in the community in what we did here. Therefore, I would have thought that contributions to political activity could not be defined outside of community contributions.

Each and every one of us who define contributions to political activity, to democracy in action in the ACT, outside community contribution defines themselves outside community action by what they do here. I choose to define what I do here as community activity; maybe others do not. At a later stage, possibly we will debate these points a little further in relation to how we approach political contributions. However, I have to say that the very action of saying that you cannot claim contributions made for political activity as part of community activity is to define yourself out of it, to say that what happens here is not a desirable thing in relation to the community.

Obviously, not everybody in this place is going to derive their financial support from the club industry, but it would appear to be an undesirable thing to derive your financial support from the club industry. You may derive your financial support from members of the business community who may not necessarily be totally altruistic about why they are supporting your particular party. They may see that there is some advantage in making a contribution; if not an advantage directly to their businesses, as one might rudely

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