Page 5671 - Week 13 - Thursday, 18 November 2010

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We have Canberra Repertory, which has a bar. The implications for Canberra Repertory, another den of alcohol-fuelled violence, with be substantial. Every time someone hires the Courtyard Theatre across the way—and most of us have attended plays at the Courtyard Theatre put on by Free Rain and other organisations—they will have a different and more arduous licensing regime because Simon Corbell thinks that they are a centre of alcohol-fuelled violence. I do not think I have ever seen a glassing at the Courtyard Theatre, and I have been going there for a very long time.

This is a ridiculous process and this is a process that will not improve safety in Civic. It will put more people on the streets in Civic because only the large Civic nightclubs will be able to afford to open late. I commend the work that has been done by my colleagues. I am actually talking to licensees, patrons and people involved in the industry. I condemn the ACT Labor Party and the Greens for their cowardice today.

Question put:

That Mrs Dunne’s motion, as amended, 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 time for Assembly business has expired.

Standing orders—suspension

Motion (by Mr Corbell) agreed to, with the concurrence of an absolute majority:

That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent the Assembly concluding its consideration of notice No 2, Assembly business, relating to the proposed amendment of Subordinate Law SL2010-40, being the Liquor Regulation 2010.

Sitting suspended from 12.28 to 2 pm.

Questions without notice

Schools—distribution of political material

MR SESELJA: My question is to the Minister for Children and Young People, and refers to the incident where the minister handed out ALP show bags containing Labor

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