Page 2276 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 28 August 2007
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MR SESELJA: That sounds to me like an impending auction. He did not bother to respond to that.
Mr Stanhope: There was no auction date. There was no sale date.
MR SESELJA: He heckles now, but he failed to respond to that, even in the slightest way. There was no mention of it when he got up to speak then. There was absolutely no mention of it. I think that is because he was wrong.
Mr Stanhope: I did.
MR SESELJA: You did not refer to the issues that I put. Mr Deputy Speaker, he did not refer to the issues that I put to him in estimates in relation to the auction and the impending auction.
Mr Stanhope: Yes, I did.
MR SESELJA: You did not respond to that specific claim.
Mr Stanhope: Yes, I did.
MR SESELJA: I do not think he did, Mr Deputy Speaker.
Mr Stanhope: I did. So will you apologise tomorrow?
MR SESELJA: The issue here continues to go to the government’s failure to provide transparency on this issue. We return to the issue around the FOI request and the government coming back to the question and saying that, because we did not challenge the FOI, they were not going to give these documents. That bears no relationship to how the FOI act works or how standing orders work. There is no relationship to it.
Mr Stanhope: Have you got the documents?
MR SESELJA: We have asked for these documents—these further documents—in relation to the auction, in particular.
Mr Stanhope: You got them.
MR SESELJA: I have certainly not received them.
Mr Stanhope: Has Mr Gentleman got them? Are you on the committee?
MR SESELJA: I am told by my colleagues on the estimates committee that they have not seen the apparent statement by Mr Nic Manikis, but I would be very keen to see that.
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