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owners of a property that adjoined that site. This was partially exempted under section 41 of the FOI Act and had a number of words censored. I seek leave to table that document.
Leave granted.
MR HANSON: I table the following document:
Email dated 15 July 2008.
Section 41 of the act relates to personal information, so information that would identify the individuals such as names and addresses and so on. But during the estimates hearings, the opposition was provided with the original copy of the email that was sent to the Chief Minister which had not been censored. I seek leave to table that document, but I would ask that you note that I have, myself, obscured the identifying information that relates to the personal identity of those owners.
Leave granted.
MR HANSON: I table the following document:
Email dated 26 May 2009.
By comparing the documents, it is revealed that the words that have been censored related to the owners’ intent to develop a cellar door, a winery and a bed and breakfast. My view, and that shared by my colleagues, was that the information that had been obscured related to information that was of a politically sensitive nature to the government, and particularly to the Minister for Health. This was made all the more damning by the fact that information that actually identified the address of the writer of the email had not been obscured. As a result, I issued a press release titled “Another Gallagher cover-up”, and I seek leave to table a copy.
Ms Gallagher: That’s right, because I’m involved in the FOI, aren’t I, Jeremy? So there’s a lie in the title. Do you have to tell the truth as part of your job?
Leave granted.
MR HANSON: I table the following document:
Media release by Mr Hanson, dated 21 May 2009.
If you review the press release, you will note the minister is clearly the subject of my criticism. In my view, any failing or improper action apparent in the minister’s portfolio areas is for a minister, and for a minister alone, to account for. I have made this clear in this place, as I have done in most of the other 57 press releases that I have issued that have been critical in most part of ministers of this government. This is a press release that goes to the heart of ministerial accountability, and that is the point I am making.
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