❓ Dr. Constable asks the Attorney General to clarify what allegations he was referring to when he stated he informed the Minister for Health about allegations made against him. The Attorney General deflects, claiming no allegations were made against the Minister for Health or Detective Sergeant Kucera, and accuses the Opposition of making false allegations.
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I ask a supplementary question. What allegations was the Attorney General referring to when he stated in this House on 18 June, at page 11497 of Hansard , that “it was appropriate to inform him” - that is, the Minister for Health - “about the allegations that had been made against him”? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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Sorry, member for Churchlands, I will repeat myself. As I have just said, the issue was to prepare the Minister for Health for allegation that would be made. Dr E. Constable: That is not what I said. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I know. It did not take long for that prediction to come true, because we knew exactly what the Opposition would do. I thought I had covered this exhaustively in my answer to the member’s primary question. No allegations were made - and neither have any allegations been made today - against the Minister for Health, or Detective Sergeant Kucera as he was at the time. There have been no allegations whatsoever. Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: Sorry, member for Churchlands, I will repeat myself. As I have just said, the issue was to prepare the Minister for Health for allegation that would be made. Dr E. Constable: That is not what I said. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I know. It did not take long for that prediction to come true, because we knew exactly what the Opposition would do. I thought I had covered this exhaustively in my answer to the member’s primary question. No allegations were made - and neither have any allegations been made today - against the Minister for Health, or Detective Sergeant Kucera as he was at the time. There have been no allegations whatsoever. Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Sorry, member for Churchlands, I will repeat myself. As I have just said, the issue was to prepare the Minister for Health for allegation that would be made. Dr E. Constable: That is not what I said. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I know. It did not take long for that prediction to come true, because we knew exactly what the Opposition would do. I thought I had covered this exhaustively in my answer to the member’s primary question. No allegations were made - and neither have any allegations been made today - against the Minister for Health, or Detective Sergeant Kucera as he was at the time. There have been no allegations whatsoever. Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Dr E. Constable: That is not what I said. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I know. It did not take long for that prediction to come true, because we knew exactly what the Opposition would do. I thought I had covered this exhaustively in my answer to the member’s primary question. No allegations were made - and neither have any allegations been made today - against the Minister for Health, or Detective Sergeant Kucera as he was at the time. There have been no allegations whatsoever. Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I know. It did not take long for that prediction to come true, because we knew exactly what the Opposition would do. I thought I had covered this exhaustively in my answer to the member’s primary question. No allegations were made - and neither have any allegations been made today - against the Minister for Health, or Detective Sergeant Kucera as he was at the time. There have been no allegations whatsoever. Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: Sorry, member for Churchlands, I will repeat myself. As I have just said, the issue was to prepare the Minister for Health for allegation that would be made. Dr E. Constable: That is not what I said. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I know. It did not take long for that prediction to come true, because we knew exactly what the Opposition would do. I thought I had covered this exhaustively in my answer to the member’s primary question. No allegations were made - and neither have any allegations been made today - against the Minister for Health, or Detective Sergeant Kucera as he was at the time. There have been no allegations whatsoever. Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Sorry, member for Churchlands, I will repeat myself. As I have just said, the issue was to prepare the Minister for Health for allegation that would be made. Dr E. Constable: That is not what I said. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I know. It did not take long for that prediction to come true, because we knew exactly what the Opposition would do. I thought I had covered this exhaustively in my answer to the member’s primary question. No allegations were made - and neither have any allegations been made today - against the Minister for Health, or Detective Sergeant Kucera as he was at the time. There have been no allegations whatsoever. Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Dr E. Constable: That is not what I said. Mr J.A. McGINTY: I know. It did not take long for that prediction to come true, because we knew exactly what the Opposition would do. I thought I had covered this exhaustively in my answer to the member’s primary question. No allegations were made - and neither have any allegations been made today - against the Minister for Health, or Detective Sergeant Kucera as he was at the time. There have been no allegations whatsoever. Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: I know. It did not take long for that prediction to come true, because we knew exactly what the Opposition would do. I thought I had covered this exhaustively in my answer to the member’s primary question. No allegations were made - and neither have any allegations been made today - against the Minister for Health, or Detective Sergeant Kucera as he was at the time. There have been no allegations whatsoever. Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.C. Kobelke interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: Sorry! My good friend the Minister for Employment and Consumer Protection has just reminded me of an allegation that was made against him. This goes to show how accurately we predicted what members opposite would get up to. Do members opposite remember when the Leader of the Opposition made the outrageous allegation that a member of Cabinet, by clear fact, was present during an interview when a prisoner was bashed? Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Dr G.I. Gallop: We remember it! Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: We remember it, because that was a bare-faced lie. It was untrue. It was scandalous. It was a suggestion of criminality. Members of the Opposition have continued that scurrilous, slurring approach in other matters they have raised, in which they have also been equally factually incorrect. That is the nature of the allegation that we anticipated. Members opposite have made that allegation. It has been blown out of the water. It is factually untrue. I am surprised that my dear friend the member for Churchlands, of all people, would pick up the cudgels to raise these sorts of matters. I thought she would have left them in the gutter with the members of the Opposition.
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