Page 5 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 16 February 1993
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Mr Kaine: They can multiply 100 hot dogs by 15c just as easily as you can.
MR BERRY: Every 15c counts for those small clubs. You do not care, obviously, that these small sporting organisations will be pushed backwards because of these sorts of taxes. Your own sports spokesman says that it will cost more to belong to sporting clubs. It will cost you more to go to sporting events. They are very important features of revenue raising for sporting clubs.
Mr Humphries: Other things come down. Sporting equipment is cheaper.
MR BERRY: Mr Humphries says that equipment will be cheaper - but not by 15 per cent. Very clearly, what the Hewson proposal amounts to is a kick in the teeth for local sporting organisations, particularly the small ones that operate on a shoestring. They have a great deal of difficulty coping with the volunteer effort they have to put into their organisations now. This is another impost, and it will put a strain on the volunteers who are prepared to offer themselves to carry out this very important work.
For the first time last year we introduced an award for volunteers in the ACT because of the grand work those people do in our sports. There will be fewer and fewer volunteers working for our sports in the ACT. They will be held responsible for the collection of this tax, and they will walk away from it.
Mr De Domenico: Because they are selling hot dogs? Come on!
MR BERRY: That is how much you understand. The sale of hot dogs at the local soccer match is very important to them. Every 15c counts, but you do not care. Do not forget the Raiders tickets. They would cost 15 per cent more if Hewson were to get elected, and that is why he is not going to get elected.
Crime Rates
MADAM SPEAKER: I call Mr Humphries.
Mr Stevenson: On a point of order, Madam Speaker: I believe that standing orders require the person first to his feet to be given the nod.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you for that information, Mr Stevenson. There is no point of order. Please stand up, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is to the Minister responsible for police, Mr Connolly. I draw the Minister's attention to comments he made last night on WIN news in relation to an advertisement placed in the Canberra Times on Saturday by the Police Association which highlighted the increases in crime in the ACT in the past year and community fears that police funding cuts would lead to increased crime in the ACT. In response to the Police Association's claim that crime is on the rise, the Minister said on WIN TV last night, "That is nonsense. That is pure and simple nonsense". Can the Minister advise the Assembly which particular crime increase mentioned in the Police Association's letter he thinks is nonsense? Is it reported sexual assaults up 141 per cent? Is that nonsense? Is it fraud and misappropriation up 100 per cent? Is that nonsense? Is reported burglary not up 13 per cent? Is reported assault not up 38 per cent? Which of these claims, Minister, is nonsense?
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