Dr LIM - 2003-08-20
Do you agree with your federal leader, Simon Crean, who is reported in the Sydney Morning Herald today as saying that a minister seeking to use his office for the benefit of his family should be sacked? If you agree with the federal leader, why are you protecting your Minister for Tourism, and why are you refusing to release any information relating to his son’s incident with the Northern Territory police?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this takes the call for today’s grubbiest question. We have seen implications from questions asked by the Opposition Leader that this government would be acting in the same way that CLP governments had; that if that is how a CLP government acted, then every other government would act the same way, and casting slurs on public servants and not supporting the proper processes of government. This is another question that goes to the heart of that.
The guidelines that are being blatantly breached by the Minister for Local Government in the federal parliament, Wilson Tuckey, are ones that the Prime Minister set, very clearly. Of course, they are supported by the Leader of the Opposition, Simon Crean.
The issue of the police matter in relation to the member for Johnston’s son has been dealt with appropriately and transparently. It has gone through the proper processes of our police force. Are you saying, opposition, that those proper processes have not been carried out? - because they have. Those processes ended up with the DPP, and there is no case to be answered. That has been made clear, and that is where we stand on it. The grubby question from the member for Greatorex demeans this parliament. It undermines the credibility of our police force and our DPP.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this takes the call for today’s grubbiest question. We have seen implications from questions asked by the Opposition Leader that this government would be acting in the same way that CLP governments had; that if that is how a CLP government acted, then every other government would act the same way, and casting slurs on public servants and not supporting the proper processes of government. This is another question that goes to the heart of that.
The guidelines that are being blatantly breached by the Minister for Local Government in the federal parliament, Wilson Tuckey, are ones that the Prime Minister set, very clearly. Of course, they are supported by the Leader of the Opposition, Simon Crean.
The issue of the police matter in relation to the member for Johnston’s son has been dealt with appropriately and transparently. It has gone through the proper processes of our police force. Are you saying, opposition, that those proper processes have not been carried out? - because they have. Those processes ended up with the DPP, and there is no case to be answered. That has been made clear, and that is where we stand on it. The grubby question from the member for Greatorex demeans this parliament. It undermines the credibility of our police force and our DPP.
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