❓ A parliamentary question regarding the appointment of the Information Commissioner, alleging a conflict of interest due to the appointee's previous role in the Department of Premier and Cabinet. The Premier's response defends the appointment and criticizes the question's premise.
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INFORMATION COMMISSIONER - APPOINTMENT
I refer to the revelation in the annual report of the freedom of information commissioner that the Attorney General plans to parachute a public servant from the Department of Premier and Cabinet into the role of freedom of information commissioner. (1) Who has the Attorney General identified as his candidate for the job? (2) Was the position advertised? (3) When will the appointment take effect? (4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
I refer to the revelation in the annual report of the freedom of information commissioner that the Attorney General plans to parachute a public servant from the Department of Premier and Cabinet into the role of freedom of information commissioner. (1) Who has the Attorney General identified as his candidate for the job? (2) Was the position advertised? (3) When will the appointment take effect? (4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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(1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(1) Who has the Attorney General identified as his candidate for the job? (2) Was the position advertised? (3) When will the appointment take effect? (4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(2) Was the position advertised? (3) When will the appointment take effect? (4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(3) When will the appointment take effect? (4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(1) Who has the Attorney General identified as his candidate for the job? (2) Was the position advertised? (3) When will the appointment take effect? (4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(2) Was the position advertised? (3) When will the appointment take effect? (4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(3) When will the appointment take effect? (4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(4) As the Minister for Public Sector Management, does the Premier recognise the massive conflict of interest in having a public servant from that department overseeing the department as Information Commissioner? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
(1)-(4) I thank the member for the question. It is a bit odd, is it not, to be talking about parachuting in public servants? Is that not a bit odd? Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr R.F. Johnson : Not for you! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member displays a lack of historical knowledge of the whole issue of parachuting. I have that historical knowledge, and the member clearly does not. The whole issue - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Try answering the question! Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am. The member should try behaving himself! By the way, I welcome to Parliament the year 7 students of the John Calvin School, Albany. I believe this is the nineteenth year in succession that the year 7 cohort has attended, which is good. The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
The parachuting phenomenon was recognised in the WA Inc Royal commission, when non-public servants were brought in and placed in permanent public service positions. To prevent that happening, there was a significant change to the Public Sector Management Act; so no parachuting has happened. The person the member is referring to, whose appointment was approved at Executive Council this morning, is Mr John Lightowlers, who is a senior public servant who has served the state with distinction under Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party governments. He would have a right to feel somewhat offended by the member’s grossly ignorant assertion.
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