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Legislative Council - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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Personal Explanation

GAMBLING MINISTER

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (15:26): I seek leave to make a clarifying statement to correct the record.

Leave granted.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: On reading today my contribution yesterday in Notices of Motion: Private Business, I note that I am recorded as saying:

…the new Minister for Gambling…and persons associated with him being asked to leave the Lion late in the evening—if the Hon. Mr Finnigan wants to go down that particular path—not because of wearing shorts but because of other issues.

If, indeed, that is a correct record of what I said yesterday that is certainly not the position I wanted to put on the public record. I intended to put on the public record that the Minister for Gambling had been involved in animated discussion with security staff at the Lion, and whether or not that involved his being asked to leave or not being allowed to enter, or, indeed, animated discussion on some other issue, I was not in a position to indicate. Certainly, information provided to me gave a view of a particular informant about the circumstances. However, I am not in a position to make a judgment as to its accuracy or otherwise. I want to place on the record a clarification of the statement I made about the minister.

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