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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (10 May) . . Page.. 1400 ..

must be disclosed to the Territory's solicitors, auditors, insurers, advisers or Territory Ombudsman;

is disclosed by the Auditor-General, in the public interest, in a report to the Legislative Assembly-

and this is an interesting one-

These principles say that, even if all this correspondence had occurred before and International Touring Co wrote down that they did not ever want this sort of information made public, the government would have been told, if it had been following its guidelines, or BOPL would have told them that they would still be subject to having that information made public in any of those circumstances I have just read out. In terms of the bullshit filter, are these principles and guidelines for the treatment of commercial information held by ACT government agencies bullshit?

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education) (4.53): I do not know whether I have heard so much bullshit in all my life.

Mr Rugendyke: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am of the opinion that the word being bandied about is unparliamentary and should be added to the list of unparliamentary words.

MR STEFANIAK: I will withdraw "bullshit", but does that mean we can have "bullshit filter" and "bullshit parameter"?

MR SPEAKER: Withdraw it, Mr Stefaniak.

MR STEFANIAK: I withdraw "bullshit", but I note that other members have referred to "bullshit filter" and "bullshit parameter". I want to know whether I can use those terms as the other members did or whether you want them to be unparliamentary also.

MR SPEAKER: If somebody else referred to it, I did not hear it. If I had heard it, I would have sought a withdrawal, as I have now, and you have given it. Thank you.

Mr Berry: Now that it is added to the list, Mr Speaker, when Mr Humphries comes back, would you remind him that he used it earlier?

MR STEFANIAK: You could remind Ms Tucker too, Mr Speaker.

Mr Hird: You did not use that, Ms Tucker?

Ms Tucker: I was quoting Mr Humphries.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Might I remind all members that I am also dealing with relevance here. Would you mind getting on with the debate, please.

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