Page 162 - Week 02 - Thursday, 25 May 1989
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way or the other. The only statements I have ever made with reference to the casino are in reading the Rally policy on the casino. What I seek to do here is to make sure that this Assembly is well informed. I appreciate the fact that Mr Stevenson, Mr Duby, Mr Kaine and Mr Stefaniak recognised that, as do members of the Rally, and debated the matter accordingly.
The points that were brought up by the Government had to do with the pros and cons of a casino. That is not what this motion is about. This motion is about finding out about it and making sure that we know. The suggestion that we already know everything about it is a total misreading of the Caldwell report because its terms of reference were such that it was restricted. We want to ensure that we do not have such restricted terms of reference and that we know what is going on.
Let me just speak on a couple of points, one on behalf of Dr Kinloch, who was actually asked by the ABC to go out for the opening of the sex shop, as much I imagine it was against his nature to do so. He reported back on ABC television and radio about that. On an earlier occasion, as a part of a regular program on ABC, Dr Kinloch actually reviewed three such films. He saw them together with a member of the Rape Crisis Centre and a lecturer in women's studies. All three people who went were disgusted by those films and it just may well be that that is the Minister's definition of a "wowser", a term which has come up today.
Allow me to say that I suppose it is true that wowsers never consider themselves wowsers. It would be difficult for me to claim that I have never gambled, that I have never been in a casino. It would be difficult for me to claim that I have never- - -
A member: Enough!
MR MOORE: Thank you. The Government has launched into a campaign of suggesting that the Rally is anti-jobs and anti-development, and there are some people who perhaps are beginning to believe those things. The Rally is not anti-jobs; it is not anti-development. We are not wowsers. We are not all those other things that the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister between them referred to.
I got a little lost on the Chief Minister's approach to gambling and the difference in this city with gambling and without it. Rather than pursue that matter, because we could, I shall not to do so as it has nothing to do with the question. The question really is about whether we should look at the implications for a casino in Canberra. That is what this motion is about.
Let us do it quickly and let us do it on a bipartisan system. Then the decision will be made and the situation will be clear. The workers, the developers and everybody will have certainty that the decision will be made then and there will be no turning back on it.
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