House of Assembly: Wednesday, November 29, 2017

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Festival Plaza Redevelopment

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:32): My question is to the Attorney-General. Why has the bundle of documents regarding the correspondence between the Department of Transport and Infrastructure and the Walker Corporation on the Festival Plaza redevelopment, identified by the freedom of information officer in DPTI and forwarded to the Attorney-General's Department last year, not been returned to her with advice as to the confidentiality of any documents or at all?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:33): In trying to follow the precise nature of the deputy leader's question, I think what she is getting at is whether the information that has been provided to her under a freedom of information request reflected the information that has been provided.

What I am advised is that the development agreement that was entered into between the government and Walker Corporation—and, I should make it clear, somewhat subsequent to the events we were just discussing back in late 2013 and 2014, the development agreement that was reached at some later stage—has not only been provided to the deputy leader in a briefing with the head of Renewal SA but has, in some redacted form, been provided to her by freedom of information. I remember also receiving questioning on this as Minister for Housing and Urban Development in my first estimates committee and reading the information into Hansard.