Page 1049 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 20 April 1994
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Madam Speaker, the Liberals can bleat and they can wax lyrical about this as much as they like. We have acted on the basis of independent valuation advice from the Australian Valuation Office which you would say is reputable, I am sure. McCanns are reputable too, no doubt; but one would have to say that a valuation prepared for a party for the purposes of presumably running a case against Burmah was perhaps prepared for a specific purpose. We have a difference in valuers' reports. That happens all the time. It is the nature of the beast. We acted, however, on the basis of an independent valuer's report, and the bottom line is that under Labor Canberra residents are paying 7c less for petrol. If you people had been occupying these benches for the last seven months, Canberra people would still be paying 75c to 77c a litre for petrol.
MRS CARNELL: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Minister, is it not true that it took you more than one go to get the valuation that you wanted from the AVO and, if not, will you table your request for valuation that you gave the AVO, taking into account that you have claimed that this is all hunky-dory and above board? I also seek leave to table my valuation.
Leave granted.
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, I have no knowledge of how many goes officials may have had. I did not deal with the Australian Valuation Office; officials dealt with it. I will consult the file. I really wonder why you people keep coming back for more. I will give you more. Under Labor consumers are paying 7c a litre less for petrol than they would have paid if you lot had been in office. I am proud to say that. I hope that the Motor Trades Association does not just put out newspapers, but buys radio time and television time to keep reminding Canberra consumers that it was Connolly and the Labor Party who brought petrol prices down 7c a litre. Your innuendo about getting valuation reports I will have a look at.
Mr Stevenson: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I think that Mr Connolly is perhaps directing his voice to the people outside the Assembly. As that was the point he raised the other day, I thought it was relevant to mention it now.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, I have noted it. I will remind you of it.
Police Records - Disclosure by Ministers
MR BERRY: I have a question for Mr Connolly, and it is another chance for him to pin the Liberals' ears back. Noting the use by the Liberals of information which was never intended for them, as was alluded to in the last answer to their question, and noting events in Victoria, where information has been dug out by the Liberals for a use for which it was never intended, could the Minister inform the Assembly under what circumstances he would release sensitive police records to members of opposition political parties in other States?
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