Page 2946 - Week 11 - Thursday, 22 October 1992
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MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.
Leave granted.
MS FOLLETT: My personal explanation relates to the document tabled during the course of the last debate by Mr Kaine. Madam Speaker, it is my recollection that in the course of debate Mr Kaine made the assertion that I was aware in some way that there was legal advice on the question that this Assembly has just voted on. Madam Speaker, I have never seen this document before today. The document that we have before us is clearly part of a larger document. It is neither the beginning nor the end, but rather an isolated page from somewhere in the middle. The document clearly has erasures in it. Finally, the document refers in the final paragraph to an alleged legal opinion obtained from Mr John Topfer, of Mallesons Stephen Jaques. Madam Speaker, I have seen no such legal opinion. I know of the existence of no such legal opinion. I would like to say also that neither at the time that Mrs Nolan asked me the question, about 21 June last year, nor at any time since has there been raised with me any question that my answer on that occasion may have misled the house.
PRESENTATION OF DOCUMENT
MR MOORE (5.08): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion requiring Mr Kaine to table in this Assembly, by the close of business this day, the full document, including attachments, which he identified as a letter from Dr Eric Willmot and of which he provided a page extract at the request of the Assembly following his speech.
Leave granted.
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, I move:
That Mr Kaine (Leader of the Opposition) be required to table in this Assembly, by the close of business this day, the full document (including attachments):
(1) which he identified as a letter from Dr Eric Willmot; and
(2) from which he provided a page extract at the request of the Assembly following his speech.
Mr Kaine: I can only table what I have.
MR MOORE: No; that is not what the motion says. Perhaps I could clarify the matter. This is an extract from a broader document. Quite clearly, it includes attachments. It refers to attachment 4b and it refers to attachment 5. The motion that I put is that Mr Kaine be required to table the whole document including attachments. That is what I am saying.
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