House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2015-07-29 Daily Xml

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Ministerial Travel

Mr KNOLL (Schubert) (14:53): Supplementary: can I ask the minister, then, when that receipt will be disclosed and also why that information wasn't proactively disclosed on the website as opposed to proactive disclosure in the DPC circular, as is the normal practice?

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL (Mawson—Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Recreation and Sport, Minister for Racing) (14:54): I thank the member for the question. That's incorrect that statement, to say that it wasn't publicly disclosed. Everything that we spend in our office is put up as soon as possible, usually at the end of the month when the expenditure has taken place, and the total cost of that trip was put up as part of the public disclosure that we do each month. So, once again, they're coming from a false assumption and trying to say something that didn't happen.