{{Short description|Australian politician (born 1949)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Craig Duby | order1 = Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly | term_start1 = 8 May 1989 | term_end1 = 15 February 1992 | predecessor1 = ''new constituency'' | successor1 = ''multi-member single constituencies'' | constituency1 = | majority1 = | alongside1 = Berry, Collaery, Connolly, Follett, Grassby, Humphries, Jensen, Kaine, Kinloch, Maher, Moore, Nolan, Prowse, Stefaniak, Stevenson, Wood, Whalan | order2 = Minister for Finance and Urban Services | term_start2 = 7 December 1989 | term_end2 = 6 June 1991 | predecessor2 = Ellnor Grassby (as Minister for Housing and Urban Services) | successor2 = Rosemary Follett | order3 = Minister for Housing and Community Services | term_start3 = 29 May 1991 | term_end3 = 6 June 1991 | predecessor3 = Bernard Collaery | successor3 = Rosemary Follett | order4 = Leader of the Opposition | term_start4 = 21 June 1991 | term_end4 = 21 June 1991 | predecessor4 = Trevor Kaine | successor4 = Gary Humphries | party = No Self-Government Party 1989; Independents Group 1989-91; Hare-Clark Independence Party 1991-92 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|2|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | occupation = Politician; public servant | footnotes = <ref name=Appendix6/><ref name=Appendix7>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/399506/A07.pdf |format=PDF |title=Appendix 7: Chronological list of ministries |work=Companion to Standing Orders |publisher=Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly |access-date=6 December 2013 }}</ref><ref name=actla/> }}
'''Craig John Duby''' (born 20 February 1949<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in Canberra|last=Louttit|first=Anne|last2=Louttit|first2=John|year=1989|publisher=C.E.S.L. Support Services Pty Ltd|issn=1032-710X|page=A-47}}</ref>) is an Australian former politician who was a member of the unicameral Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory between 1989 and 1992, elected to the multi-member single constituency Assembly as a representative of the No Self-Government Party. During his term in office, Duby was a member of the Independents Group and the Hare-Clark Independence Party. Duby was the Minister for Finance and Urban Services and briefly was the Minister for Housing and Community Services in the Kaine ministry. For part of one day, he served as the Leader of the Opposition.
==Biography== Born on 20 February 1949 in Brisbane, Queensland, Duby attended St Columban's College in {{QLDcity|Albion}}. Prior to entering politics, Duby worked as a real estate manager and public servant in the ACT Administration.<ref name=actla>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/437237/Members-1st-Assembly-1989-R.pdf |title=Members of the First Assembly |publisher=Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory |date=September 1990 |access-date=6 December 2013 |format=PDF }}</ref>
Duby was elected to the inaugural ACT Legislative Assembly in 1989 general election on a platform that was critical of the decision by the Australian Government to replace direct administration of the Territory with self-government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.act.gov.au/elections_and_voting/past_act_legislative_assembly_elections/1989_election/list_of_candidates_1989_election |title=List of candidates |work=1989 election |publisher=ACT Electoral Commission |date=5 July 2012 |access-date=8 December 2013 }}</ref> The anti-self-government movement carried significant popular weight; an advisory referendum held in 1978 concluded that only 30.5 per cent of electors were in favour of self-government;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/367018/Assembly-Factsheet-3-June-2013.pdf |format=PDF |title=The establishment of self-government in the ACT |work=Fact sheet |publisher=Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory |date=12 August 2009 |access-date=8 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212063920/http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/367018/Assembly-Factsheet-3-June-2013.pdf |archive-date=12 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Duby plus two other members of his No Self Government Party and a representative of the Abolish Self-Government Coalition were elected to the inaugural 17-member Assembly.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.act.gov.au/elections_and_voting/past_act_legislative_assembly_elections/1989_election/list_of_elected_candidates_1989_election |title=List of elected candidates |work=1989 election |publisher=ACT Electoral Commission |date=5 July 2012 |access-date=8 December 2013 }}</ref> However, once elected, reversal of the move to self-government proved impractical. Duby resigned from the No Self-Government Party, along with Carmel Maher and David Prowse, to form the Independents Group on 3 December 1989. Duby left the Independents Group to found the Hare-Clark Independence Party on 19 November 1991.
Duby served as Minister for Finance and Urban Services in the first Kaine ministry.<ref name=Appendix7/> In 1989 and 1990, he was convicted of two offences of driving under the influence, during the period when he was the minister with responsibility for road safety. A censure motion was moved against Duby in the Assembly; resolved in the negative:<ref>{{cite web |pages=1692–1730 |url=http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1990/pdfs/19900529.pdf |format=PDF |title=Debates of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory |work=Hansard |date=29 May 1990 |access-date=8 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518165905/http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1990/pdfs/19900529.pdf |archive-date=18 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> {{blockquote|That, noting that for the second time within two years the Minister for Finance and Urban Services, Mr Duby, has been convicted under the Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs) Act 1977, and noting that Mrs Robyn Nolan took the honourable path and stood down from the position of Mr Duby's Executive Deputy following a conviction under the Commonwealth Taxation Administration Act, this Assembly censures the Minister for Finance and Urban Services, Mr Duby, for failing to resign as Minister.|Wayne Berry, Deputy Opposition Leader of the Australian Capital Territory, 29 May 1990.}}
On Friday 21 June 1991, Duby held the post of Opposition Leader of the Australian Capital Territory for 6.5 hours.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mason |first1=Leanne |title=Duby out, Humphries in? Chaos over vote |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118152567 |publisher=Canberra Times |date=22 June 1991}}</ref> Liberal Party leader Trevor Kaine resigned to allow colleague Gary Humphries to take the job, but as the Liberals did not have a majority in the ACT Parliament and nominated Duby. After the first vote was tied, a second vote elected Duby, at which point he announced that he didn't believe he should hold the title as there were five non-government groupings in the Assembly, and instead asked to be referred to as the 'coordinator of non-government business'. Duby said he would donate the additional salary for the job to charity, and share the extra staffing resources with the other non-government parties. Later that day, Liberal and Labor MLAs combined to change the Assembly's standing orders so that the leader of the largest non-government party would occupy the role. Duby was replaced by Humphries without resigning from the position.
As Minister for Finance and Urban Services one of his more notable achievements was the construction of a cover for the Canberra Olympic Swimming Pool permitting its year-round use, dubbed the "Duby dome". Commenting on the Duby dome in 1996, Liberal leader Gary Humphries said:<ref name=Dubydome>{{cite web |url=http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1996/pdfs/19960926.pdf |format=PDF |page=3503 |title=Debates of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory |work=Hansard |date=26 September 1996 |access-date=8 December 2013 }}</ref> {{blockquote|''The words of some great sage spring to mind: "Things that men do live after them". I am afraid that there is very little else in the Territory that will live after Mr Duby, so to do away with his one remaining monument in the Territory would be a great pity, Mr Speaker''}}
In the last days of the Kaine ministry, Duby served as Minister for Housing and Community Services; and then, for part of one day, as Leader of the Opposition.<ref name=Appendix6>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/399505/A06.pdf |format=PDF |title=Appendix 6: Leaders of the Opposition |work=Companion to Standing Orders |publisher=Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly |access-date=6 December 2013 }}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-act}} {{s-new}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly | years=1989–1991 |alongside=Berry, Collaery, Connolly, Follett, Grassby, Humphries, Jensen,<br />Kaine, Kinloch, Maher, Moore, Nolan, Prowse, Stefaniak, Stevenson, Wood, Whalan }} {{s-non|reason=''Multi-member single constituency''}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before=Ellnor Grassby <br />(as Minister for Housing and Urban Services) | title=Minister for Finance and Urban Services | years=1989 – 1991 | after=Rosemary Follett}} {{succession box | before=Bernard Collaery | title=Minister for Housing and Community Services | years=1991 | after=Rosemary Follett }} {{s-ppo}} {{succession box | before=Trevor Kaine | title=Opposition Leader of the Australian Capital Territory | years=1991 | after=Gary Humphries}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duby, Craig}} Category:Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Leaders of the opposition in the Australian Capital Territory Category:No Self-Government Party members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Category:Independents Group members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly