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motions of censure and of no confidence against this minister because it is what leads people to doubt what he says.
I just want to put one more doubt on the record. During this whole process in the estimates, Mr Corbell was asked a question by Mr Seselja, and he has responded by saying:
Secondly, shopping centres have large components of food retailing—for example, food courts and so on. These are also explicitly excluded from this site—
That was the EpiCentre site—“explicitly excluded”: those are Mr Corbell’s words. He continued:
So the comparison with a shopping centre is a false one, a misleading one.
So if there is a shopping centre there, it must be a mislead; somebody would have misled. He continued:
In that regard I think your argument, Mr Seselja, just does not hold water.
Mr Seselja came back and said:
Could I table the development application to the EpiCentre? It does have a food court. I do not know whether you want to correct that, but my recollection of what you said was that it does not have a food court, and that was one of the differences. Clearly the map shows that it does.
I seek leave to table part of the approved DA for the EpiCentre that has, smack damn in the middle of it, Mr Speaker, a food court.
Leave granted.
MR SMYTH: I table the following paper:
EpiCentre—Proposed bulky goods and DFO retail development, Canberra Avenue, Fyshwick—Ground floor site plan.
Thank you very much, members. Mr Corbell would be well aware that the code of conduct for ministers says that ministers should take reasonable steps to ensure that the factual content of statements they make in the Assembly are soundly based and that they correct any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity. It says “the earliest opportunity”. Has Mr Corbell corrected the fact that he told—
Mr Corbell: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SMYTH: the estimates that there was no food court?
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Corbell: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker.
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