Page 5668 - Week 13 - Thursday, 18 November 2010

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Mr Corbell spends a lot of time talking about the evidence and what the police want. He has not listened to what the police want, because the police are still saying to me that there are a range of things that could be done that would make this legislation better. The police have not been listened to by Simon Corbell. The police have not been listened to by Shane Rattenbury and the Greens in this. This is why the Canberra Liberals cannot support this pathetic watering down of this important disallowance motion.

Question put:

That Mr Rattenbury’s amendments be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 10

Noes 6

Mr Barr

Ms Hunter

Mr Coe

Mr Smyth

Ms Burch

Ms Le Couteur

Mr Doszpot

Mr Corbell

Ms Porter

Mrs Dunne

Ms Gallagher

Mr Rattenbury

Mr Hanson

Mr Hargreaves

Mr Stanhope

Mr Seselja

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Le Couteur): The question now is that the motion, as amended, be agreed to.

MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (12.15): This is a very disappointing outcome for the people of Canberra and I think that they will not thank the Labor Party and the Greens for their approach here today. I will take the time available to me to highlight to members exactly what they have done. I will start with the Yowani Country Club. They wrote to the Chief Minister, to me and to others about the impact that the liquor licensing regime will have on them. The chairperson, Michael Murphy, wrote:

Yowani, and other similar small clubs in the ACT, is not part of, nor has it ever contributed to, the problem at which this new regulatory framework is aimed. It hardly seems equitable that we should be forced into costly processes, which are not necessary in the environment in which we operate. In our case, these are equivalent to having to use a sledgehammer to kill an ant.

Mr Murphy, the chairperson of Yowani Country Club, went on to say:

Our estimate is that the requirements of the Act will increase our compliance and licensing costs—

that is, compliance and the cost of doing business—

by more than $60,000 per annum—

that is, $60,000 from the humble Yowani Country Club—

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