Mallard Trevor: Major Events Management Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Major Events Management Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 22 August 2007. Volume:641;Page:11397. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Minister for Economic Development): I think there are two points that should be made here. The first is in response to Mr Peachey. I give him an absolute assurance that the recommendations under clauses 6 and 7 will be made by a Labour Minister and not by a National Minister. I am prepared to wager $1000 on it now.Dr Richard Worth: I seek leave of the House for that wager to be recorded in theJournals of the House as distinct fromHansard.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: That is not necessary but if we could have an acceptance from Mr Peachey right now then we will go for it. Is he prepared to put his money where his mouth is?The CHAIRPERSON (Ann Hartley): The question is that Part 5—Allan Peachey: I would be delighted to.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: What did he say? I am sorry I missed it.The CHAIRPERSON (Ann Hartley): Look this is out of order—Hon Member: He said yes.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: OK that is good. I am still going Madam Chair.The CHAIRPERSON (Ann Hartley): Will the member just come back to the bill.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: I am happy to come back to the bill in the way that this works in but I think I should give the member a chance to say that this does not happen in the year of the event. This happens in this case quite a long time beforehand and might even happen over the next few weeks so if he wants to—[Interruption] No no we are talking about the Rugby World Cup and if the member wants to withdraw in his ignorance I am prepared to let him do it because it will be a bit of an unfair bet.Allan Peachey: I raise a point of order Madam Chairperson. Could somebody tell me what the hell the Minister is talking about because I have absolutely no idea.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: It is the wager that he just bet $1000 on—in ignorance I think. I am prepared to let him withdraw.Maryan Street: I raise a point of order Madam Chairperson. I thought the Gambling Bill was the next item on the Order Paper.The CHAIRPERSON (Ann Hartley): That is a good point.Hon TREVOR MALLARD: I will leave it to the member to decide later on. The other point which I think is an important point that Dr Worth has raised—Darren Hughes: A doctor?Hon TREVOR MALLARD: He is a doctor—a part-time doctor but he is a doctor.Darren Hughes: Really a quack?Hon TREVOR MALLARD: No not one of them. He is one of the doctors who makes one sick not one that makes one well.The point to make to that member is that the regulations disallowance area was something that was very very deliberate on the part of the Government. We have a very high test here and we want to make sure there is a degree of unanimity about it in Parliament before it is applied. I accept that some of the powers are along the lines of what Keith Locke has said and that they are somewhat draconian. There is some loss of civil liberties and some balances occurring here and we wanted to make sure that through the Regulations Review Committee and Parliament there was a wide basis of support for the application of this legislation in each and every case.Part 5 agreed to.