Page 2802 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 29 June 2011
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A commitment to advancing sport and the wellbeing associated with it is evident on this side of the Assembly, so there is no risk to sport and recreation over here. The real risks to ACT sports in this place is that they may not receive support from those opposite. Mr Doszpot likes to talk the talk, but when it comes to actually voting for initiatives in support of all of the things he claims are laudable initiatives—
Mr Doszpot: We support real initiatives, Mr Barr.
MR BARR: Real initiatives, so the things I have just announced are not real—I will be very pleased to advise each of those organisations who have been successful in all of their sport and recreation funding grants this year and in years past, and who benefit from the initiatives in the budget, that Mr Doszpot does not believe they are real. Opposition for opposition’s sake—Mr Doszpot gets up in his contribution and spends more time attacking me than talking about the positives within a framework that he describes as being very good. He spends a lot of time attacking the make-up of the committee who worked diligently to present this, and he fails to even look at the membership of the particular committee and notes that the then chief executive of ACTSport played an active part in the development of this strategy. Mr Macdonald has moved on from that position, his replacement has moved on from that position, and so ACTSport is going through a process of recruitment in relation—
Mr Doszpot: I am talking about the ministerial advisory council.
MR BARR: I am aware of that, Mr Doszpot, and ACTSport are going through a process of recruitment and restructuring of their operations as a result of both Mr Macdonald and his replacement Dr Richards moving on.
Amendment agreed to.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Le Couteur): The question now is that the motion, as amended, be agreed to.
MR DOSZPOT (Brindabella) (12.05), by leave: I move the revised amendment circulated in my name:
Insert new subparagraph (2)(e):
“(e) encourage, support and provide meaningful financial assistance to sporting clubs and organisations, and engage community volunteers;”.
When I got up to speak to Ms Porter’s original motion, I made the point that I was very concerned about the fact that ACTSport was not represented on the minister’s sports advisory council. Yet again Mr Barr decides to absolutely move the goalpost, so to speak, in addressing the fact that ACTSport has not got any current CEO so it is not sitting on either body. The previous CEO sat on the board that looked at 2020. I had no argument with that. I had no problem with that. I understood the situation with ACTSport’s representatives. What I queried, and I query it again, was the fact that ACTSport is not represented on the ministerial council. It was not before and it is not now.
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