❓ A parliamentary question seeks details about the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure's husband's Alinta shares declaration. The Premier deflects, citing confidentiality and attacking the Leader of the Opposition.
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Quite a lot of notice of this question has been given. The Premier will be aware of that. (1) On what date did the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure send the letter to the cabinet secretary advising of his Alinta shares? (2) On what other dates has the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advised the cabinet secretary of his shares? (3) Will the Premier please table the letter the cabinet secretary received from the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advising of his Alinta shares? (4) Will the Premier also please table the log from the Premier and cabinet ministerial office correspondence system indicating when the correspondence was received? Dr G.I. GALLOP
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(1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(1) On what date did the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure send the letter to the cabinet secretary advising of his Alinta shares? (2) On what other dates has the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advised the cabinet secretary of his shares? (3) Will the Premier please table the letter the cabinet secretary received from the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advising of his Alinta shares? (4) Will the Premier also please table the log from the Premier and cabinet ministerial office correspondence system indicating when the correspondence was received? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(2) On what other dates has the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advised the cabinet secretary of his shares? (3) Will the Premier please table the letter the cabinet secretary received from the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advising of his Alinta shares? (4) Will the Premier also please table the log from the Premier and cabinet ministerial office correspondence system indicating when the correspondence was received? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(3) Will the Premier please table the letter the cabinet secretary received from the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advising of his Alinta shares? (4) Will the Premier also please table the log from the Premier and cabinet ministerial office correspondence system indicating when the correspondence was received? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(4) Will the Premier also please table the log from the Premier and cabinet ministerial office correspondence system indicating when the correspondence was received? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(1) On what date did the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure send the letter to the cabinet secretary advising of his Alinta shares? (2) On what other dates has the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advised the cabinet secretary of his shares? (3) Will the Premier please table the letter the cabinet secretary received from the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advising of his Alinta shares? (4) Will the Premier also please table the log from the Premier and cabinet ministerial office correspondence system indicating when the correspondence was received? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(2) On what other dates has the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advised the cabinet secretary of his shares? (3) Will the Premier please table the letter the cabinet secretary received from the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advising of his Alinta shares? (4) Will the Premier also please table the log from the Premier and cabinet ministerial office correspondence system indicating when the correspondence was received? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(3) Will the Premier please table the letter the cabinet secretary received from the husband of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure advising of his Alinta shares? (4) Will the Premier also please table the log from the Premier and cabinet ministerial office correspondence system indicating when the correspondence was received? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(4) Will the Premier also please table the log from the Premier and cabinet ministerial office correspondence system indicating when the correspondence was received? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(1) I refer to the minister’s statement on Tuesday when the information was provided. (2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
(2)-(4) The pecuniary interests of spouses, as distinct from those of members, is provided to the cabinet secretary on a confidential basis, and I intend to respect the basis upon which the information about family members was provided. In relation to some of the issues that have been raised in the Parliament in the past few days, we had an appalling performance from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. He stood in this chamber and implied that four of my colleagues, Hon Vincent Catania, Hon Shelley Archer, Hon Sally Talbot and Hon Sheila Mills, had breached the parliamentary financial interests act. The Leader of the Opposition came into this Parliament this morning and blamed the Chamber of Minerals and Energy for giving him the misleading information about this. I ask the Leader of the Opposition who it was at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy he claimed gave him misleading information. He has claimed that one of the state’s senior economic organisations gave him misleading information, which he used to impugn the integrity of four of my colleagues in the other place. When he came back into the chamber today, he then blamed someone else for that. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to tell me who gave him that misleading information. Mr M.J. Birney : Why do you want to know that? What I have said in my statement is absolutely spot-on. Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
Dr G.I. GALLOP : The very fact that the Leader of the Opposition asked the question about why I want to know indicates his failure to understand the implications of being the Leader of the Opposition and a political leader in Western Australia today.
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