Page 1051 - Week 04 - Thursday, 18 June 1992
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Mr Lamont: Ms Ellis has fixed it up, and you are now trying to claim the credit.
MR DE DOMENICO: That is not the case, Mr Lamont. Just listen and you might learn something. The Government's solution is to try to find $5,000 and send them back to the old site at Wanniassa, which originally they were told to leave.
Ms Ellis: You are totally misrepresenting the facts, Tony.
MR DE DOMENICO: That is what I am advised.
Ms Ellis: You have been ill-advised.
MR DE DOMENICO: I am sorry. It is up to somebody else to advise and correct the situation.
Mr Berry: Why don't you ask a question?
MR DE DOMENICO: Hold on a tick; I have not finished. Easy, boy, easy.
Mr Berry: Ask a question and you will get the answer.
MR DE DOMENICO: You will not even talk to them, mate. You talked to them only last Friday. It has been going on for years.
Mr Berry: Last Monday.
MR DE DOMENICO: Well, Monday. The club is more than willing to do the fundraising, but they cannot meet impossible costs all in one go. All they are asking for is some help. The Government's solution has been short-sighted, in my opinion, and I am asking the Minister to look at the case again sympathetically, so that the people can get a facility which I think they well deserve.
West Belconnen Rugby League Club
MR LAMONT (4.39): Some time ago I availed myself of the good intentions of each of the members of the Assembly to assist in a fundraising event for Ian Henry, the immediate past president of the West Belconnen Rugby League Club, who went overseas and became embroiled in a health issue. Mr Henry ended up being the subject of a $94,000 medical bill. His international insurance agent refused to meet the cost of a five-way bypass operation in the United States. That fundraising evening, where the $1 cheques that were kindly donated by all of the MLAs were auctioned, and raised a considerable amount of money, I might add - - -
Mr Kaine: They are very valuable artefacts.
MR LAMONT: They certainly are. They will prove more valuable in time, one would suspect, as more of the members opposite depart from the Assembly.
Mr Stevenson: When we are all gone they will be worth a fortune.
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