House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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STATE RECORDS

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:43): Supplementary: does an email with the heading 'Urgent: for your information' with 'importance: high' constitute an official document for the purposes of the State Records Act?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:43): Yes, I believe it does, and I also believe, if I am not mistaken, that Mr Debelle had that document from day one. I also believe that it appeared in his report. I also believe it was referred to in his report. I also believe that for the last three and a half or six months we have been talking about that document in this chamber every question time. Yes, I think it was an official record and, yes, Mr Debelle saw it and, yes, it was kept. The reason we know it was kept was because Mr Debelle spent some six months or so having a look at it and everything around it—there is no surprise in that.

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley is warned for the second and final time. The member for Fisher.