Mr STIRLING - 1999-04-22
I seek leave to table a transcript from 2 focus groups conducted by Mark Textor for the Country Liberal Party government on 21 April 1993.
Leave granted.
Mr STIRLING: I do want the Chief Minister to be able to see this transcript, because I want to refer him to a particular section of it. I refer the Chief Minister to page 6, which details an exchange between one of the participants and Textor.
The participant says: ‘So what’s your job exactly?’, and Textor replies: ‘I am a market researcher’. Participant: ‘Do you work for the Labor or the Liberal governments?’. Textor then lies to the participant, and all those present, and says: ‘No, I don’t work for either. What I do is, I come up in different states to companies that operate in that state, and I try to find out what is the big picture’. Throughout that transcript, Textor repeats this lie a number of times.
Chief Minister, do you endorse Territory taxpayers paying Mark Textor to lie to Territorians?
ANSWER
Mr Speaker, this is 1993. As I said before, I’ll read this. Interesting reading, I am sure, provide some good bedtime reading, provide some historical reference to things that happened many, many years ago, and I will have a look at it.
This is a private operator, operating under directions, as I understand it, from Andrew Coward, and we’ve said on many occasions how Andrew Coward operated in his dealings.
Leave granted.
Mr STIRLING: I do want the Chief Minister to be able to see this transcript, because I want to refer him to a particular section of it. I refer the Chief Minister to page 6, which details an exchange between one of the participants and Textor.
The participant says: ‘So what’s your job exactly?’, and Textor replies: ‘I am a market researcher’. Participant: ‘Do you work for the Labor or the Liberal governments?’. Textor then lies to the participant, and all those present, and says: ‘No, I don’t work for either. What I do is, I come up in different states to companies that operate in that state, and I try to find out what is the big picture’. Throughout that transcript, Textor repeats this lie a number of times.
Chief Minister, do you endorse Territory taxpayers paying Mark Textor to lie to Territorians?
ANSWER
Mr Speaker, this is 1993. As I said before, I’ll read this. Interesting reading, I am sure, provide some good bedtime reading, provide some historical reference to things that happened many, many years ago, and I will have a look at it.
This is a private operator, operating under directions, as I understand it, from Andrew Coward, and we’ve said on many occasions how Andrew Coward operated in his dealings.
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