Page 832 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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It is in part due to this engagement with the community and the industry that there have been no fatalities in the ACT. This is a credit to the large number of reputable operators in the industry, as much as it is to the ACT government’s regulatory authorities that have at all times sought to provide timely warnings and education.
I have not misled anyone about the information that I have had. I have answered questions in the context in which they have been put to me and I note that, on repeated occasions in relation to requests for documents, I asked the opposition to be more specific about the types of documents they were seeking. They refused to do so.
Mr Seselja: Any and all.
Mr Hanson: Any and all.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, Mr Hanson!
MR CORBELL: The opposition’s ignorance of the operations of government is extraordinary.
Mr Seselja: It is hard to specify—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, remain silent, please.
MR CORBELL: Do they seriously believe that ministers should be aware of email exchanges and file notes between public servants? For them to characterise the document release that occurred as a result of the order of this Assembly as a thousand pages of documents is disingenuous at best.
Mr Seselja: What about the letter?
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, do you want me to warn you, because I will, next.
Mr Smyth: A lot of coordination then?
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Smyth!
MR CORBELL: As Mr Rattenbury has highlighted, many of those documents are multiple copies of a single document held across agencies, and a large amount of those documents are publicly available documents from the Department of the Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts website about how the home insulation scheme operated.
Mr Smyth: So there were documents?
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Smyth!
MR CORBELL: Quite clearly, what we see from the opposition is an attempt to copy the tactics of Tony Abbott. They cannot think of any tactics of their own; they cannot
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