Page 3463 - Week 09 - Thursday, 20 August 2009

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Mr Hanson: That’s not the question.

MR STANHOPE: Well, the question related to the ministerial code of conduct. If the question is not related to the ministerial code of conduct, then the question is out of order. This is what you have managed to hang yourself on. The question relates to the ministerial code of conduct, otherwise you cannot ask it. I am answering the part of the question that is in order. The part of the question that is in order is the part that relates—

Mr Hanson: So you won’t answer the question?

MR STANHOPE: Well, does the question relate to the ministerial code of conduct or not?

Mr Hanson: Of course it’s related to it, but it’s not specific to it. It’s about the Labor Club Group.

MR STANHOPE: I answered the question fully. To the extent that the question was related to the ministerial code of conduct, I answered the question fully and wholly. No, I have not breached the ministerial code of conduct in relation to the sale of the Labor Club. Now, does the question relate to anything other than the ministerial code of conduct? If it does, it is out of order, and I am not answering it.

MR HANSON: Let me, in my supplementary question, make clear what I am asking you, Chief Minister. Were you or any of your staff or your representatives involved at any level in influencing or directing the sale or withdrawal of sale of the Canberra Labor Club Group? If so, in what manner were they involved?

MR STANHOPE: That question is not in order. It does not apply to any part of my ministerial responsibility and I will not answer it.

Mrs Dunne: Mr Speaker, I am not quite sure whether the Chief Minister was seeking your ruling on it. Only you can rule whether the question was in order.

MR STANHOPE: I was seeking your ruling, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: I will take it that Mr Stanhope put it as a question.

Mrs Dunne: The thing is that I find it difficult that you could rule it out of order, seeing it was ruled in order in relation to four other ministers.

MR SPEAKER: The question is in order. Chief Minister, I think, as Chief Minister, you have overarching responsibility for a range of portfolios.

MR STANHOPE: But the supplementary only went to my attendance at a meeting of the Labor club.

MR SPEAKER: No, it did not. Mr Hanson, would you like to repeat the supplementary question, please?


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