Gillman Land Sale

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (17:02): Of the documents that have been tabled by the Attorney today, could the Attorney then confirm if this deed, signed by the parties as I have indicated, is the final deed, or whether it is a draft, accepting that there are portions which have been redacted which have previously been identified?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform) (17:02): Again, I will have to take that on advice. If I can just explain to the member for Bragg how we came to this point. I realised that the member for Bragg and others had said that they would like to have more access to material. What I have asked the Crown to do is to, in effect, reproduce the public element of the court file. Those were my instructions to the Crown.

I personally did not supervise the collection and photocopying of those materials, so I am relying on—and I have no reason to disbelieve that the Crown has done a faithful job of identifying each and every document which was publicly tendered in the context of that hearing, and has provided a reproduction of those for me to tender here today. Exactly what is in all of those documents, I myself have not physically been through the whole lot of them because I thought it was not necessarily a productive use of my time.

Certainly—and I make this very clear—the instruction that was given to Crown was, 'You find out whatever it was that was tendered in the court,' so, in other words, is already—for those intrepid enough to wander down there with enough money for photocopying expenses—a public document, and give me that material.

Mr Tarzia interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: As the member for Hartley is observing, I am saving everyone quite a lot of money and costing the court something in the process, so that is pretty helpful, I guess, from parliament's point of view. That is the instruction I have, just so the member for Bragg understands. I personally did not do the photocopying and I did not personally retrieve the documents, but I have every confidence the Crown has done exactly what I asked them to do.