Riverbank Precinct

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:21): My question is to the Treasurer. As the minister for housing and urban development in late 2013, was he aware of a meeting between Mr Lang Walker and the chief executive of DPTI which the Auditor-General has described as 'inappropriate as it was inconsistent with good process and procurement practice'?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:21): From at least the first reading of the report, it is clear that the concern from the Auditor-General was particularly about the level of documentation that was provided about that meeting. Indeed, in the rest of the report, the chronology that is provided makes it clear that a decision was taken for the then head of the infrastructure agency to participate in this process, given it was, in essence, an infrastructure project. That was the rationale for the meeting between, as I understand it, the then chief executive and the representatives of the Walker Corporation.