BURNSIDE CITY COUNCIL

The Hon. DAVID WINDERLICH (14:49): As a supplementary question, have the investigations carried out to date by the Office for State/Local Government Relations involved any discussions with community members or business people, or any people outside the Burnside council itself?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for State/Local Government Relations, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister Assisting the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Energy) (14:49): I am not sure of the extent of those investigations. I received advice that the allegations that we received had been assessed and that crown law advice had been sought in relation to that assessment. The advice to me was that they did not obtain a level of detail that enabled substantiation of those allegations, and the advice to me is that it did not warrant a triggering of section 272.