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If the Leader of the Opposition seeks leave to table within 10 minutes the document that he was talking about, I will seek leave to withdraw that suspension of standing orders motion.
Question resolved in the affirmative, with the concurrence of an absolute majority.
MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Chief Minister, Minister for Health and Minister for Territory and Municipal Services) (2.19): I move:
That the Opposition table all emails and documents relating to question time today.
Mr Smyth interjecting—
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Thank you!
MS GALLAGHER: I thought we might encapture all of you while we are going, rather than doing this one at a time. That might be the easiest way to encompass everything.
Mr Coe: Open government.
MS GALLAGHER: Exactly, Mr Coe. Thank you. Open opposition; how about that—a new test? Open government is all right until it is applied to the other side, isn’t it? And we have seen that in the last week or so.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms Gallagher has the call.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Mr Coe!
MS GALLAGHER: Mr Speaker, I will not take up too much time. I do not think I need to. The point I want to make by this is that the Liberal Party seem to be on track to ask me a number of questions today pertaining to material that I do not have, that I have probably never seen, and they are asking me to answer questions on that. I think I am entirely within my rights to ask for a copy of that information before I provide, and am in a position to provide, a response. As members would know, I was not the Chief Minister in 2008. I was not the Treasurer in 2008.
Mr Hanson: Oh, backing away.
MS GALLAGHER: No, not at all. The email that I have received, that has been tabled from Mr Smyth, seems entirely reasonable to me around checking some
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