Riverbank Precinct

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:16): Supplementary: will the minister admit that commitments made to the Walker Corporation by the Treasurer, when he was the Minister for Housing and Urban Development, locked the government into a deal with the Walker Corporation when important issues had not been resolved, including the cost of the project to taxpayers?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:17): I don't think that assertion stands because, as we know, the subsequent agreement wasn't reached with Walker Corporation until the detailed deed of agreement was entered into some many months later. In fact, the final arrangements with Walker Corporation weren't entered into until 2016, when the superintendence of this matter and portfolio was not in the purview of the Treasurer; in fact, it was in mine. With that agreement, not only have I made the information available to the opposition but I have also outlined the contents of that agreement into Hansard during a questioning during estimates.