Page 2964 - Week 11 - Thursday, 22 October 1992
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Since no formal record was able to be located in this period of time - now just over a day - so that I could see again the arguments that he presented to me, I tried another path and inquired whether any payments for legal advice had been made by the department. I had advice on this matter at about 5.30 or 5.45, I would think. On looking, the department advised me that an amount was paid, as the document states, for confidential advice to the secretary on the Chief Minister's answer in the Assembly or my comments in the Assembly. I have not had time to get the clear detail of what is on that account. They are remarks of that nature, but certainly confidential advice to the secretary.
My remarks about the weight that can be placed on that evidence may be vindicated, because the amount of the solicitor's account - the firm that Mr Kaine named - was $200. I do not know what depth of advice can be provided for that sum or how that advice was presented to Dr Willmot.
Mr Kaine: Very easy. It said that you misrepresented in the parliament and you should correct it.
MR WOOD: Mr Kaine makes that point again. I reiterate that I remind members of my statement and the statement of the Attorney-General that you would want to see the nature of that advice to the solicitor in the first place, before you can pay any respect to whatever advice emerges. Another factor is interesting. The Government seeks its advice from or through the Government Solicitor. It appears that Dr Willmot did not follow that correct process and was even at that stage laying the foundation for a continuing campaign.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Connolly) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Canberra's Suburb and Street Names
MR LAMONT (6.17): I rise very briefly, before the Leader of the Opposition leaves, to draw the house's attention to a series of books published by the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning. It is a magnificent set of books. The Minister launched them some weeks ago and they are now publicly available through the shopfront of the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning. These books are called Canberra's Suburb and Street Names. We have a complete history of the ACT in a very succinct form. Along with that, we also have the origins and meanings of street names in Belconnen, Tuggeranong, Woden Valley, Weston Creek and Central Canberra.
These books are in a very attractive pack. I understand that a copy of each has been presented by the Minister to each member of the Assembly. I take this opportunity to thank the Minister for that generosity and also to place on record my appreciation of the officers of the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning who put this document together, particularly Mrs Colleen Walters, who I understand was directly involved in producing what I regard as probably one of the most attractive sets of books of information published by the ACT Government.
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