House of Assembly: Thursday, October 15, 2015

Contents

Gillman Land Sale

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (15:02): Supplementary: is the Premier concerned that information intended to be provided to him as the Premier from one of his government agencies was concealed from him by the Treasurer?

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier) (15:02): This is another example of the Leader of the Opposition making his own findings rather than relying upon the findings that are made by the Ombudsman. He is not satisfied with the findings of the Ombudsman. He, in fact, now wants to make his own findings about concealment of relevant documents. If the Ombudsman had wanted to make a finding about that—

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The leader is on two warnings.

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: If he had wanted to make a finding which was a negative finding about the Treasurer, I think we can see that he would not hesitate about doing those sorts of things, and I am sure he would have added this to the list of things that he wanted to agitate, and he did not. We have seen this all before where the opposition seeks to run their own separate inquiries, not satisfied with us establishing the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption, not satisfied with us taking very seriously and cooperating with inquiries of this sort, and not satisfied with us responding to his recommendations in full and accepting his recommendations. They seek to put themselves above the ICAC commissioner.