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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 7 Hansard (26 June) . . Page.. 2557 ..
MR QUINLAN
(continuing):scratchies are a bad thing. So scratchies can get you hooked on gambling for life, but pokies are okay. Apparently that is the logic, or extreme lack thereof.
Let me give you a couple of examples of your pollyanna view of taverns, Mrs Burke. A very good friend of mine is a former owner of the Charnwood Inn, which is now the Ginninderra Labor Club. The stories of the life within the then Charnwood Inn are legion, but let me tell you, Mrs Burke, they are not very related to happy families.
Mrs Burke
: You don't like happy families.MR QUINLAN
: Unless you call a bikie gang a family, okay. My very good friend would relay stories of how it was necessary to actually ply some of the clientele with free liquor in order that they kept the rest of the clientele under control.I also counsel you to go to the Charnwood shopping centre and ask a few of the local traders what they think about the change in ownership and tone of the building at the end of the shopping centre. They think the Canberra Labor Club is wonderful, compared to what they used to have to put up with in the great days of the family Charnwood Inn, pollyanna.
Mrs Burke
: What has this got to do with revenue? What has this got to do with what we are talking about now, Treasurer? This is a little furphy, isn't it? Come on. Get on with the debate.MR QUINLAN
: I don't know what your experience of taverns is, but I have not been in once since, oh, last Sunday.Mrs Burke
: Yes, I have hit a nerve. You didn't like it, did you, Treasurer. What a shame.MR SPEAKER
: Order!MR QUINLAN
: Mrs Burke, every time you are picked up for talking rubbish, it doesn't mean you have hit a nerve. It may be that you have been picked up for talking rubbish.Mrs Burke
: No, this is about the Labor Party and revenue, isn't it?MR QUINLAN
: The last time I happened to be-Mrs Burke
: It is about revenue, yes.MR SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr Quinlan has the floor.
MR QUINLAN
: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I have got to tell you that the last time I happened to be in a tavern-last Sunday evening-there were no kiddies skipping in the corner. They were nice enough people, good people, but no, not the place of happy families. I really thought that I should correct your misapprehension, just in case you are planning a family night out with the grandkiddies.
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