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❓ Mr. Zempilas questions the Department of Premier and Cabinet's policy regarding the declaration of tickets and invitations to events as gifts, and whether the policy has been reviewed or changed in the last eight years. The DPC clarifies that such items are considered hospitality, not gifts, and that a new policy was developed in 2024.

AnsweredQoN 1882Legislative Assembly

Asked

10 March 2026

Member

Mr Basil Zempilas

Portfolio

Premier

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I refer to the release of information on 29 January 2026 by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC) in response to the Freedom of Information Application 20250036 which requested information on gifts declared on the 2024-25 DPC Gift Register and ask: (a) Are tickets or invitations to sporting events, artistic and cultural events such as concerts, theatre productions, and business and or organisation breakfasts, dinners and awards events and the like considered gifts: (i) If so, what is the policy in relation to such tickets or invitations; and (ii) If not considered gifts, why not; (b) At any time in the last eight years has the policy or procedure for declaring tickets and invitations to sporting and cultural events or business and organisational events changed: (i) If so, when and why; and (c) Has the DPC gift register and associated policy been reviewed in the last eight years: (i) If so when, and what changes were made; and (ii) If not, why not?

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Answered

14 April 2026

Response time

5 days

(a) Pursuant to the relevant policy, they are considered hospitality and not gifts. Hospitality is often provided in a work or business context for a legitimate business purpose. These items are reported and recorded as hospitality under the relevant policy.
(b – c) Yes. In 2024, the Department developed a Gifts, Benefits and Hospitality Policy.

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