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DEBATES OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY HANSARD 20 June 2001 Wednesday, 20 June 2001 Death of Mr Terry Gathercole AM ...................................................................... 2135 Suspension of standing and temporary orders ...................................................... 2138 Land (Planning and Environment) Amendment Bill 2001 (No 5)......................... 2141 Statement by Speaker .......................................................................................... 2143 Financial Management Amendment Bill 2001 (No 2).......................................... 2144 Visitors................................................................................................................ 2165 Questions without notice: Bruce Stadium—marketing contract............................................................. 2165 Canberra Hospital—surgical waiting lists..................................................... 2167 Government contracts................................................................................... 2168 Namadgi national park ................................................................................. 2170 School-based programs ................................................................................ 2172 2008 Olympic Games................................................................................... 2174 Williamsdale quarry ..................................................................................... 2175 Public housing.............................................................................................. 2177 Housing Advisory Committee ...................................................................... 2178 ACTTAB—relocation of headquarters ......................................................... 2179 Annual reports and audited financial statements ........................................... 2180 Family Services—court unit......................................................................... 2181 Paper................................................................................................................... 2182 Auditor-General’s report—No 2 of 2001 ............................................................. 2182 Paper................................................................................................................... 2182 Petition—out of order.......................................................................................... 2182 Ministerial statement ........................................................................................... 2182 Financial Management Amendment Bill 2001 (No 2).......................................... 2183 Auditor-General Amendment Bill 2000 ............................................................... 2211 Student bus travel—new flat fare......................................................................... 2216 General Agreement on Trade in Services............................................................. 2217 Dual occupancy development .............................................................................. 2232 Proposed credit reforms—submission to Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs......................................................................................... 2245 Auditor-General Amendment Bill 2000 ............................................................... 2251 Australian Bureau of Statistics—unpaid work statistics ....................................... 2254 Fair Trading (Fuel Prices) Amendment Bill 2001 ................................................ 2254 Totalcare redundancies ........................................................................................ 2258 Education Amendment Bill 2001......................................................................... 2271 Adjournment ....................................................................................................... 2273 Adult Entertainment and Restricted Material Bill 2000........................................ 2274 Dog registration fees............................................................................................ 2274 Adjournment: World trade and globalisation....................................................................... 2277 Death of Robert Klippel ............................................................................... 2278 Schedules of amendments: Auditor-General Amendment Bill 2000........................................................ 2279 Auditor-General Amendment Bill 2000........................................................ 2280 Fair Trading (Fuel Prices) Amendment Bill 2000 ......................................... 2281 20 June 2001 Wednesday, 20 June 2001 MR SPEAKER (Mr Cornwell) took the chair at 10.30 am and asked members to stand in silence and pray or reflect on their responsibilities to the people of the Australian Capital Territory. Death of Mr Terry Gathercole AM MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Attorney-General): I move: That this Assembly expresses its deep regret at the death of former swimming champion and coach and President of Australian Swimming, Mr Terry Gathercole AM. Mr Speaker, it is with much sadness that the swimming world and the community in general learned of the death of Terry Gathercole in Canberra on 30 May of this year. Terry was born at Tallimba, New South Wales, on 25 November 1935. He had a long list of achievements, including Olympic swimming champion, Olympic swimming coach and President of Australian Swimming. One of Terry’s most passionate arguments was about keeping drugs out of sport. It was his dedication as an anti-drugs campaigner that kept the sport of swimming so clean in Australia. Terry’s long swimming career started in West Wyalong and had many influences. Ironically, his father was a master plumber and worked on the construction of the local swimming pool. His father was also a foundation member of the West Wyalong swimming club and served as a committee member and president for 21 years. Terry’s first competition was in the five years of age and under wading race and, as the season progressed, he joined the swimming competitions in the main pool. He continued to compete in swimming carnivals across western New South Wales, with one of the highlights being the New South Wales country championships in 1952, which were held in his home town. Terry Gathercole could be described as a self-taught swimmer. He lived in the country, where there was no coaching expertise, but that did not stop him from representing Australia. He was the Australian 100 and 200 metres and 110 and 220 yards breaststroke champion from 1954 to 1960. He was a passionate believer in the art of breaststroke swimming and used to have a lovely way of knocking the other disciplines of swimming, something for which he was fondly remembered at a memorial service for him at the AIS pool. He was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as winning the most consecutive national titles won by a male competitor. Terry represented Australia in the Olympics in Melbourne in 1956 and in Rome in 1960, where he won a silver medal in the medley relay. He also wore the green and gold at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. After an illustrious swimming career, Terry turned to coaching. He made champions like Phil Rogers, Linley Frame, Georgina Parkes, Beverley Whitfield, Graham Dunn and Ian O’Brien. He was the Australian Olympic swimming team coach in 1964 and 1976, and three times a Commonwealth Games coach. 2135 20 June 2001 Terry Gathercole also had a familiar name overseas. In 1968, he accepted the head coach position with the city of Midland, Texas, and was presented with a Senate resolution in recognition of his contribution to swimming in Texas. It was in his later years that Terry Gathercole had even more influence on the administration of swimming in the United States. He was instrumental in standardising swimming rules and administration, achieved nationwide recognition by serving on the American Swimming Coaches Association board of directors and later became the first non- American elected as the President of the American Swimming Coaches Association. It was in 1986 that Terry made his way to the Australian Institute of Sport. His influence there contributed to the ongoing success of Australian swimming. His spirit will live on at the AIS and each and every swimmer, coach and administrator who was associated with him can take comfort from having known a great man who can be hailed as having the greatest influence on Australian swimming. Terry Gathercole was loved by everyone who knew him or came in contact with him. Despite a lengthy illness and heart trouble, he was in high spirits till the day he passed on. Ironically, my office received a phone call from Terry two days before he died. He was trying to arrange a meeting with me to talk about swimming pools in our schools. He was a passionate believer in the benefits that swimming could bring to people in our community. He had some innovative plans for swimming pools. Those plans are worthy of note by whomever is in government in this Assembly because of their excellence and potential. He had a passionate love for his sport, especially for breaststroke swimming over the other forms. I was at the memorial service for him, which was attended by the Prime Minister, other dignitaries and many swimmers from many eras, and it was fantastic to hear of the love held for Terry. You were there, Mr Speaker, and it was, I think,

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