Attorney-General's Department Relocation

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:52): Supplementary: will the government be paying rent in advance for the Attorney-General's Department for the tenancy similar to the up-front fees paid to the Walker Corporation for the Festival Plaza development?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:53): The deputy leader persists with her misrepresentation of the structure of the arrangement entered into by the government and the Walker Corporation for the Festival Plaza arrangement calling it an 'up-front rental payment' when, in fact, what it is is purchasing a long-term right for a number of car parks to service the Festival Centre as well as this building, and I know how keenly and acutely concerned she is about the latter interests of that—

Mr Knoll interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Schubert is on thin ice.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: —but to say that this is some form of new government policy of paying rent in advance for our commercial leasing arrangements is a misrepresentation of what we are doing. If she wants the detail of the leasing arrangements for this building, I have undertaken to provide that to the house already.