Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2025-09-03 Daily Xml

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SARDI Fish Deaths

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:31): Supplementary.

The PRESIDENT: Supplementary arising from the answer. I hope that I could hear what the minister actually said at the time.

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI: Is the minister suggesting that she cannot rule out that government departments other than SARDI did not influence or change the outcome of the investigative report to suit the government's agenda?

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:32): There were a lot of double negatives in there, but what I can state clearly is that there has been no inappropriate influence from any department. This is about finding, to the extent possible, the reasons for the deaths of the fingerlings and the spat. It is in everyone's interest to find as much information as possible. It needs to be credible information, something that those opposite clearly don't care about a great deal. It needs to be credible information, and I am very confident that all of the credible information that could be provided has been provided.