Page 3491 - Week 11 - Thursday, 15 November 2007
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Mrs Dunne: Getting elected on the back of unqualified young men who have got a gambling problem. That’s how you get elected.
MR MULCAHY: We have it here. You have got the New South Wales metal workers throwing money in. And if you look through here, the Canberra—
Mr Barr: What, and you receive your campaign funds in brown paper bags from unnamed sources, Mrs Dunne? Is that it?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!
Mrs Dunne: No, all mine are accounted for and none of it came in a brown paper bag.
MR MULCAHY: Mr Barr makes fallacious allegations against my colleague Mrs Dunne—fallacious allegations. I think he should withdraw that allegation. He really should withdraw that allegation suggesting that she is the recipient of a brown paper bag of cash.
Mr Barr: Mr Deputy Speaker, I will withdraw that allegation.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you.
MR MULCAHY: And we have the Labor Club here. Let us look at the returns. Canberra Labor Club, $38,340; another one from the Canberra Labor Club, $347,000; CFMEU, 5,400. These are records showing how independent Labor is of the poker machines.
Mr Barr: All declared, Richard. Tell us about the 250 club.
MR MULCAHY: Here we are: 2005-06, $391,000—
Mr Barr: Tell us about the 250 club.
MR MULCAHY: I have not had a penny from the 250 club. In the year 2005-06, $391,420.85. So neither the Labor Party nor the Green movement come into this place with clean hands when it comes to poker machine allocations. We hear the Greens get up in here and lecture all of us about contributions to the community when Dr Foskey’s predecessor, who is now presenting herself as a Senate candidate, gets up there and says, “No, no, no. Political parties are like community groups. We can’t put a cap on people giving money to them.” That is because, as we have seen, she ultimately became the recipient of something in the order of $20,000 from the CFMEU—as Jon Stanhope said, taken out of machines at the Tradies Club.
I have called Senator Humphries and I have urged him to make this known to the people of Canberra. When people vote on Saturday week, they need to understand how fair dinkum these Greens are when it comes to poker machines. They preach and lecture all of us, but their actions do not accord with the so-called high moral ground they adopt.
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