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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 5 Hansard (5 May) . . Page.. 1422 ..
The amendment goes to the issue of the provision of documents when the Assembly is not sitting, given an undertaking to the house by the Attorney-General in relation to the matter. The amendment provides that if, in a period when the Assembly is not sitting, the Attorney is in a position to release a class of documents referred in the original motion, he can make them available to the Speaker, who is authorised to give directions for "the printing, circulation and publication of the documents".
Amendment agreed to.
Motion, as amended, agreed to.
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
MR BERRY (6.22): Mr Speaker, we heard that the 1999-2000 budget was the full monty but, on a quick examination of it, in my view it is more like the three-card monty. If I can explain, Mr Speaker, by quoting from some information that was gathered off the Internet by one of my hawk-eyed staff:
Typically, Three card Monty scams consist of two or more people trying to find a designated card out of three shuffled cards. The shuffler is the most obvious member of this swindling bunch. There is also a planted swindler who plays the game and consistently wins. The two people work together to trick you into believing that it is easy to win, so they can bring you into the game. Supposedly, to win the game, you have to choose the correct card out of the three cards shuffled. The shuffler will purposely lose the first few rounds to you to get you to bet more money. At this point, if you take your wallet out, they will grab it and run.
Three card Monty games are usually played on a card board box on the busy sidewalks of New York City. Whenever a police car passes by, you can observe how quickly the game disperses.
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