Page 2940 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 15 August 2018
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As a former patron of Karinya House, I also have to acknowledge the Canberra Southern Cross Club for its magnificent support of Karinya House, with a substantial in-kind donation every year to the dinners that most members of this place have attended at least once. Mr Rattenbury, Ms Stephen-Smith, Ms Fitzharris and many members on this side have attended. Mrs Jones is a regular attender. Canberra Southern Cross Club opens up its entire function facility and provides every ounce of food and all the PA system—the whole lot—gratis to Karinya House. That enables them to raise many tens of thousands of dollars towards their quite ambitious fundraising campaign every year.
My daughter plays for the Uni Owls women’s team, who are in the grand final this week at the Vikings club. They are supported by the RUC in Turner.
But it goes across all of the other great organisations. Probus clubs across this town rely upon licensed clubs who provide them with accommodation for their meetings free of charge. The Probus club, as a group and individually, have written to many members. The east Canberra Probus club benefits from the generosity of the Canberra Deakin Football Club. Another Probus club benefits from the Jamison Southern Cross Club. The Macquarie Probus club receives assistance from the Raiders club in Belconnen.
The Campbell-Russell RSL sub-branch receives assistance from the Yowani golf club. The Canberra Blues Society Inc has its home at the Harmonie German Club. I do not think you actually get piano accordions with blues, but it shows the diversity of the musical appreciation of the Harmonie German Club, because they house both German oompah bands and the Blues Society. The Southern Cross social dance group exists because of the generosity of the Canberra Southern Cross Club.
In my own electorate, in addition to assisting the Macquarie Probus club, the Raiders Belconnen club is extraordinarily generous to community groups. The ACT Apple Users Group depends upon the free accommodation for its meetings that it receives from Raiders Belconnen. The Joy Cummings sewing group say to me that they could not meet if it were not for the generosity of Raiders Belconnen. The University of Canberra Grizzlies rugby league football club also extols the virtues of the Raiders Belconnen and the support they give. Going to an issue which is close to many members in this place, Bosom Buddies has written to many of us extolling the virtues of the Canberra Southern Cross Club and the generosity that they receive from the club.
I have talked about only some clubs. This is just the tip of the iceberg. These are associations that I have had something to do with or that are in my electorate. These organisations depend upon licensed clubs, for the most part, giving gifts in kind.
Mr Rattenbury and Mr Ramsay have found a number of things which they think are wrong, and the Auditor-General has highlighted some of those. Instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, call it for what it is. Say that there are things about the scheme that need tightening up.
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