Page 756 - Week 05 - Thursday, 6 July 1989
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Ms Follett: No way.
MR COLLAERY: The Chief Minister says, "No way". Well, this is very interesting. One hopes that the Government that has put this motion on is well prepared to respond to it as well. We will see. We will put this Government to the test now, and we have got all day, have we not; we have got the next sitting; and now we understand why the Deputy Chief Minister does not want to sit in spring. Well, it might be a new spring for him, but certainly it is autumn for the Australian Labor Party on this issue.
Mr Temby and a very great judge in the New South Wales legal system, Judge Adrian Roden, whom I have had the honour to hear and watch, are currently investigating concerns raised by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in New South Wales.
That commission proceeded in a reasoned fashion. It did not deal with scuttlebutt. It put an advertisement in the paper. Please bear with me, Mr Speaker. I am just passing through title searches and a number of other issues that the Rally has prepared for its eventual submission to the Assembly's Public Accounts Committee.
We have seen advertisements in the Sydney Morning Herald giving notices of public hearings. In this case - and I am being careful, Mr Speaker not to raise issues other than those in the public domain and not to say anything about current inquiries being conducted by Mr Temby and Judge Adrian Roden - this notice of public hearing appeared on 10 May 1989 in the Sydney Morning Herald:
The Independent Commission Against Corruption has decided to hold a public hearing having the following general scope and purpose:
to investigate:
. the conduct of persons involved in the making of applications for the development of land within the Municipality of Waverley in the period from July 1982;
. the conduct of persons involved in the processing and determination of such applications;
. the conduct of Donald George Stait in the discharge of his duties of office as an employee of the Council of that Municipality between July 1982 and July 1988, and in particular his relationship with Dainford Ltd and associated companies; and
. matters relating to any of the foregoing.
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