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they got more advice before they made decisions, particularly the government, they might not make some of the bad decisions that are made. I am stunned that we are against an advisory board in this place on such an important matter.

Question put:

That Mr Smyth’s amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 5		Noes 11
Mr Coe	Mr Seselja	Mr Barr	Ms Hunter
Mr Doszpot	Mr Smyth	Ms Bresnan	Ms Le Couteur
Mrs Dunne		Ms Burch	Ms Porter
		Mr Corbell	Mr Rattenbury
		Ms Gallagher	Mr Stanhope
		Mr Hargreaves

Question so resolved in the negative.

Amendment negatived.

Clause 4, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 5.

MR BARR (Molonglo—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Planning, Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation and Minister for Gaming and Racing) (4.38): The government will be opposing this clause. It is consequential to a previous amendment that has been supported by the Assembly.

Clause 5 negatived.

Remainder of bill, by leave, taken as a whole.

MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (4.39), by leave: I move amendments Nos 3 to 5 circulated in my name together [see schedule 2 at page 6041].

These amendments in the main allow for the establishment of the advisory board. As I have said previously, it is a shame that a couple of weeks ago the government thought an advisory board for the liquor industry was fine but now it finds an advisory board for gaming is not acceptable. If somebody can explain that to me in sensible terms then I would be very surprised.

At the heart of this, of course, as Mr Barr referred to, is conflict of interest. At the heart of all of this is the lack of action that we have had and the fact that clubs have waited for more than three years for the government to honour the commitment made by the Chief Minister to look at rates of taxation and other reforms to the industry so that they could reform, change and adapt to a changing environment. Instead, what do we get from the government? What we simply get is protectionism.

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