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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
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Personal Explanation

BURNSIDE COUNCIL

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (11:13): I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Leave granted.

Ms CHAPMAN: I understand that the member for Light indicated to the house only minutes ago that minister Gago in some way has been impeded from publishing a report commonly known as the MacPherson report into the Burnside council as a result of that report being necessarily suppressed by court order. I rise, by way of a personal explanation, to inform the house that that is untrue.

The correct position is this. There is an application before the Supreme Court and it relates to the validity of the process of the investigation. In the course of those proceedings, an affidavit by one of the claimants has been sealed, and attached to it as an annexure is that report, but there has been no court order or injunction, no action whatsoever by the Supreme Court or any other court to suppress the publication of this report. This is a matter that entirely rests with minister Gago, and that remains the case. I ask that the member for Light make sure that he clearly understands that before he comes into this place and makes that sort of assertion.

Mrs GERAGHTY: On a point of order, Madam Speaker.

The SPEAKER: Point of order, member for Torrens.

Mrs GERAGHTY: I think this has gone well beyond a personal explanation. I actually think the member is giving a speech.

The SPEAKER: I uphold that point of order. I was getting rather concerned. A personal explanation is about something relating to the member, and this seems to have gone well beyond that. I think we have heard sufficient from the member. The member for Fisher.

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