Page 2224 - Week 08 - Thursday, 10 September 1992
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Mr Berry: Will you table that document?
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, of course. I hope that the Chief Minister will disclose whether the rules that Mr Berry seems to think are appropriate are now reflected in this new policy. If they are, and they are the same thing, then we may have had a serious departure from the Alliance Government policy. I would like to know, then, in fact what is the new policy of the Follett Labor Government. I seek leave to table that document.
Leave granted.
Canberra Times - Police Investigation
MR DE DOMENICO (4.46): Madam Speaker, I hear what Mr Berry said. He said, "Usually the Minister hears about it anyway". I rise to inform the Assembly of something to do with these sorts of things, like documents and members of the Australian Federal Police. I am informed by Mr Chris Uhlmann of the Canberra Times - I rang Mr Uhlmann to confirm this - that at 11.58 this morning, at his office in the Canberra Times, he received a visit from two police officers.
Mr Humphries: Not a raid?
MR DE DOMENICO: Not a raid. That is called a visit. These police officers asked Mr Uhlmann, "Who do you normally speak to as part of your job?". He obviously cooperated fully with the police officers and told them. The other question was an interesting one. It was, "Do you normally get sensitive documents over a fax machine?". Mr Uhlmann said no, but from time to time these sorts of things do happen, as they do in any other job and in any other portfolio area in which he had worked. He also said that from his experience in the house on the hill he is aware that from time to time even governments themselves use the leaked document situation to get things done.
Mr Berry might inform the Assembly at some stage whether he knew in advance that the police officers were going to visit Mr Uhlmann. He might inform us - - -
Mr Connolly: Of course not. That is an outrageous allegation. It suggests that he is directing the police.
MR DE DOMENICO: It is not an allegation. I am asking him a question. I want him to tell the Assembly whether he knew in advance that Mr Uhlmann was to receive a visit by the Australian Federal Police. If he did not know, would he find out for us who advised the Federal Police to go and see Mr Uhlmann, if anybody?
Mr Connolly: If you people ever get your hands on the police in this State it is going to turn into a dictatorship.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr De Domenico has the floor.
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, I rose to say that I wish the Assembly to be informed of that fact. Once again, it goes on and on. One wonders who is next.
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