Page 2264 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 28 August 2007
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will go ahead particularly well next year. I hope I have been able to address some of the issues that Mr Pratt has raised.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo) (9.00): I thank Mr Hargreaves for his contribution. I understood that he was going to take one minute to respond because it was not the right line item, but he has taken 15 nonetheless. I appreciate his input, as always. I want to raise a couple of issues in relation to this line item. The first relates to the issue of Kama. It has been touched on before, but I just wanted to take the Assembly through some of the issues surrounding that. Our concern is about the government’s failure to be transparent on this issue. Kama came about through a constituent follow-up at my office and uncovered through an FOI request. We have document after document detailing the issues around Kama. Essentially the area of embarrassment for the Chief Minister was the fact that it became public that he had pushed ahead against advice on this issue. That of itself I do not think is a problem.
Mr Stanhope: It is not true.
MR SESELJA: Of course, public servants give advice and ministers are free to—
Mr Stanhope: Produce that advice, Mr Seselja. Produce the advice.
MR SESELJA: I will get to that part, Chief Minister, thank you.
Mr Stanhope: Then produce it like Jacqui Burke. Give us your press releases.
MR SESELJA: I think it is up to you to produce the advice but it is referred to in your documents.
Mr Stanhope: No, it is not.
MR SESELJA: The Chief Minister interjects saying, “Produce the advice.” This is the whole point. We have been asking for this advice—
Mr Stanhope: There is no advice.
MR SESELJA: —which is referred to in his documents. So either his department has produced fraudulent documents, incorrect documents—
Mr Stanhope: They did.
MR SESELJA: They did! Mr Stanhope says that his department has produced fraudulent documents.
Mr Stanhope: No, I didn’t.
MR SESELJA: This is what he has interjected across the chamber.
Mr Stanhope: Point of order. I said no such thing. I interjected that the statement in the department document was wrong; I did not say it was fraudulent, but it was certainly wrong, and the officer is more than willing to declare it to be wrong.
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