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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 7 Hansard (26 June) . . Page.. 2187 ..

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I asked no questions about the Reserve Bank of Australia. I asked the question of the Chief Minister - - -

MR SPEAKER: I am well aware of what you asked, and I think the Chief Minister is establishing the bona fides of the company concerned. That is my reading of it.

Mr Berry: I did not ask that question.

MRS CARNELL: You do not care about their bona fides. You are just willing to knock them.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, I think this shows something. Mr Berry is not interested at all in their bona fides. He is not interested at all in the work that they are doing in Australia for other governments. He is not interested at all in the fact that this is a company that is doing work for governments all around this country. It was an authorised dealer to the Reserve Bank of Australia. He does not care about any of that. He just wants to use the coward's castle to make unsubstantiated allegations.

MR SPEAKER: Do you have a supplementary question, Mr Berry?

MR BERRY: Indeed, Mr Speaker. It is a bit hard to make out whether she was or whether she was not.

MR SPEAKER: In which case, sit down if you do not have a supplementary question.

MR BERRY: Why did you go ahead and let this contract to a firm which was involved in dubious practices? What does this say about the probity check you undertake of contractors, if a firm which has been involved in tax rorts to the extent that Fay Richwhite and Associates have - rorts that have defrauded governments of hundreds of millions of dollars - is employed by the ACT Government?

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, maybe he should ask the New South Wales Government, because they are employing them too.

Bruce Stadium Redevelopment

MS REILLY: My question is to Mrs Carnell in her capacity as Chief Minister. Chief Minister, can you confirm that CRI Ltd, who performed the preliminary assessment of the redevelopment of Bruce Stadium, are closely related to CRI Project Management, who have been selected to perform the upgrade, valued by you at $27m?

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, I understand that some preliminary work was done by CRI which was not associated with the contract.

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