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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 3681 ..

Amendment negatived.

MR QUINLAN (6.15): Mr Deputy Speaker, I ask for leave to move amendment No 8 circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR QUINLAN: I move:

This amendment is based upon the concern that was expressed in the report of the Gambling and Racing Commission that there was, effectively, an exclusion from eligible contributions under category 6, relating to contributions to associated organisations. Those would be, in the main, cash flows from the main social club to the active football club, and in at least one case that I know of the separation of those is a requirement of the bank. The bank has said, "We want the club itself set up as an incorporated body. We want the football club and a couple of other subsidiary clubs set up as separate incorporated bodies so that we can, in fact, make conditions on what happens as between those organisations."

In fact, one of them listed here is out of my own area - Weston Creek Football Club, $138,000. That is purely money to run Australian rules football within the umbrella of that club, but it is done by virtue of a transfer of funds between two committees.

Mr Humphries: It does not apply in those situations, unless it is a licensed club that they are giving money to.

MR QUINLAN: I understand from having had a cursory look at the guidelines that you have drafted and circulated to some people today -

Mr Humphries: I tabled them here.

MR QUINLAN: Okay. I understand that this category may now become included. Is that right?

Mr Humphries: To which category are you referring?

MR QUINLAN: Category 6, attachment 6 of the report, which is not included in the eligible contributions of the club. If that is the case, there will be great difficulty for a number of clubs that actually live on the margin. Let me say that not all of the clubs in the ACT, as might be construed from what has been said here today, are wallowing in cash and have it to throw around. In fact, quite a number of them have gone broke and quite a lot of them are living very close to the margin, particularly those that support some of the middle - level sport in the ACT, such as the Eastlake Football Club, West Belconnen Leagues Club, Belconnen Soccer Club and the Canberra Royals Rugby Football Club.

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