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speculation on whether they are or are not budget documents. All members, including Dr Kinloch and the media, are going to have to wait until next Tuesday for the detail of the budget.
Mr Humphries: We know the facts already.
MS FOLLETT: If members know the facts already, they have kept remarkably quiet about it. Dr Kinloch has asked what precautions I have taken as Treasurer within my office to ensure the security of budget papers. I can assure members that all of those papers have been treated with the full security that is accorded to Cabinet papers, and then some. There are very limited numbers of any document available. I could account for all of the documents in my office, and I believe that that would be the case also with the Treasury.
I can understand Dr Kinloch's concern, and it is a matter that I take a dim view of. It is unfortunate that on occasions leaks may occur. Trying to track down where they have occurred is not a terribly productive exercise. Nevertheless, I do take a serious view of it. I have made inquiries about articles that purport to be leaked documents, and all I can say is that I do not expect to see it happen again.
Civic Pool
MR DUBY: My question is directed to Mr Berry in his capacity as Minister for Sport and Recreation and is in relation to the proposed opening next Saturday of the refurbished Civic pool and air structure. It concerns the fact that all non-government members of this Assembly have been excluded from attending the opening of that structure, which is a major capital works project. They have been excluded, I might add, at the express direction of Mr Berry's office. Is the reason for that exclusion that the pool redevelopment and bubble structure was an initiative of the Alliance Government in general and mine in particular, and that in the past in this place it has been pooh-poohed by the Labor Party and that he might therefore have to give public credit where credit is due? Or is it that his nose was put out of joint by the photograph and article that appeared in Tuesday's Canberra Times, which christened the structure the "Duby Dome", and rightly buried his name in the by-lines? Or is it just a further indication of the churlish attitude that has been adopted by Labor members towards Alliance Government initiatives and policies which are now bearing fruit, as evidenced in this morning's proceedings?
MR BERRY: It is true that my office has not sent invitations. This is the first I have heard of a request by a member to attend the opening. It is the first I have heard of anybody being concerned about it. My recollection
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