Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2020-09-09 Daily Xml

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Members, Accommodation Allowances

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:42): A supplementary to the original answer: the Treasurer highlighted that he spent many hours looking through members' allowance documents. Can he advise what date it was when he started looking through those allowance documents?

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (14:42): No. Certainly, the ones that were tabled in the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly were publicly available. The discussions I have had over recent events have been discussions with individual members indicating the nature of the claims that they have made. I have become much better informed about the nature of the claims that have been made. I did have some passing knowledge because this issue gets raised in the media every 10 years or so as a matter of interest to members of the media, but I have become much more familiar with the nature of the claims that have been made.