House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2013-03-07 Daily Xml

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MOUNT BARKER DEVELOPMENT

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:33): My question again is to the Minister for Planning. Was the government lobbied by developers to fast-track a ministerial DPA for the Mount Barker area in 2008?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:34): I think I have made it plain several times here that I was not involved in the matter at that time by reason of not being—

Ms Chapman interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I do not know the answer to that without doing the inquiry that I have been telling you I am trying to do now. When I have done it, you can ask me whatever you like. But, at the moment, you are asking me to answer a question about a time that I was not present and I am unable to answer that question.