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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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The Hon. I.F. EVANS (Davenport) (14:53): Given the Premier has said that he had provided all the information for the whole parliament and that's why he didn't have to refer it to the IDC, my question to the Premier is: can he confirm that, by not referring it to the IDC, it prevented the members of the IDC from asking questions about matters that are commercial-in-confidence, which is the exact purpose—

The SPEAKER: I will—

The Hon. I.F. EVANS: The IDC was established—

The SPEAKER: Yes, you have asked your question; I will allow it as a separate question, not as a supplementary. Premier.

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (14:54): I thank the honourable member for his question. I mean, the heart of this is that the opposition don't respect the role of the government in negotiating these arrangements with private companies, and they don't respect—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: —they don't respect their request—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: Look, I am sorry, but they wanted to deal with the government. They didn't want to deal with you: they wanted to deal with the government in relation to this matter. Now that is a matter for them and their decision. They didn't want confidential details being made available to you. I can't help that. That is their decision. I have offered to actually release confidential details now. I have offered to ask them to waive that. They've refused to do that; they regard that as proprietary. They don't want you to look at it. I'm sorry about that, but the whole of the parliament was given all of the information I could, in good faith, give the parliament without breaching my undertakings.

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