❓ Opposition questions Premier's decision not to ban Shelley Archer from ministerial contact, raising concerns about his ability to address corruption within the Labor Party. Premier defends his position, citing Archer's assurances and the ongoing CCC process.
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HON SHELLEY ARCHER - BAN ON MINISTERIAL CONTACT
I have a supplementary question. Given that the Premier has said that he will not ban Shelley Archer from ministerial contact, how can the Western Australian public have any faith that the Premier will achieve his stated goal to stop the malignancy in the Western Australian Labor Party? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
I have a supplementary question. Given that the Premier has said that he will not ban Shelley Archer from ministerial contact, how can the Western Australian public have any faith that the Premier will achieve his stated goal to stop the malignancy in the Western Australian Labor Party? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I think I have answered that question in one way or another over and over again. The bigger task in relation to this issue is to make sure that the brilliant economic and therefore social fortunes that we brought to Western Australia continue. That is my task and also the task of all ministers and government members sitting in this place. I must have confidence that ministers will make the right judgments. If they do not make the right judgments - Mr C.J. Barnett : Which ones have you got confidence in? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Given that the Premier has said that he will not ban Shelley Archer from ministerial contact, how can the Western Australian public have any faith that the Premier will achieve his stated goal to stop the malignancy in the Western Australian Labor Party? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I think I have answered that question in one way or another over and over again. The bigger task in relation to this issue is to make sure that the brilliant economic and therefore social fortunes that we brought to Western Australia continue. That is my task and also the task of all ministers and government members sitting in this place. I must have confidence that ministers will make the right judgments. If they do not make the right judgments - Mr C.J. Barnett : Which ones have you got confidence in? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I think I have answered that question in one way or another over and over again. The bigger task in relation to this issue is to make sure that the brilliant economic and therefore social fortunes that we brought to Western Australia continue. That is my task and also the task of all ministers and government members sitting in this place. I must have confidence that ministers will make the right judgments. If they do not make the right judgments - Mr C.J. Barnett : Which ones have you got confidence in? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
I think I have answered that question in one way or another over and over again. The bigger task in relation to this issue is to make sure that the brilliant economic and therefore social fortunes that we brought to Western Australia continue. That is my task and also the task of all ministers and government members sitting in this place. I must have confidence that ministers will make the right judgments. If they do not make the right judgments - Mr C.J. Barnett : Which ones have you got confidence in? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Which ones have you got confidence in? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Given that the Premier has said that he will not ban Shelley Archer from ministerial contact, how can the Western Australian public have any faith that the Premier will achieve his stated goal to stop the malignancy in the Western Australian Labor Party? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I think I have answered that question in one way or another over and over again. The bigger task in relation to this issue is to make sure that the brilliant economic and therefore social fortunes that we brought to Western Australia continue. That is my task and also the task of all ministers and government members sitting in this place. I must have confidence that ministers will make the right judgments. If they do not make the right judgments - Mr C.J. Barnett : Which ones have you got confidence in? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I think I have answered that question in one way or another over and over again. The bigger task in relation to this issue is to make sure that the brilliant economic and therefore social fortunes that we brought to Western Australia continue. That is my task and also the task of all ministers and government members sitting in this place. I must have confidence that ministers will make the right judgments. If they do not make the right judgments - Mr C.J. Barnett : Which ones have you got confidence in? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
I think I have answered that question in one way or another over and over again. The bigger task in relation to this issue is to make sure that the brilliant economic and therefore social fortunes that we brought to Western Australia continue. That is my task and also the task of all ministers and government members sitting in this place. I must have confidence that ministers will make the right judgments. If they do not make the right judgments - Mr C.J. Barnett : Which ones have you got confidence in? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Which ones have you got confidence in? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : I am afraid that I do not have a lot of confidence in the member for Cottesloe, although I can predict him. I can predict his every reaction. He is completely predictable. In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
In answer to the question from the Leader of the National Party, there is now a process at the CCC which is revealing all. There is nowhere to hide once people have been called there. If I sit across the table from the Leader of the National Party and ask him a direct question and he gives me a direct answer, I am prepared to believe him. I do not feel that it is necessary to have the CIA investigate to see whether he is telling the truth. Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr B.J. Grylls : Ask me a question and you can believe me. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Yes. I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
I sat down with Shelley Archer last night and had a very thorough conversation with her. Last November, in the light of the Norm Marlborough events, I called Shelley Archer into my office and said, “Look, you must understand that your relationship with Brian Burke cannot compromise your activity as a member of Parliament.” She said to me, “From this point on I will completely separate my friendship with Brian Burke from my performance as a member of Parliament.” Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr C.J. Barnett : She doesn’t even believe in the CCC; she thinks the whole thing is a circus. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : What does that have to do with it? Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr C.J. Barnett : How can you believe someone who regards the CCC as a circus? She is defiant, publicly defiant. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Lots of people have views about it. Yes, I have confidence in my ministers and in the team that is in the state Parliamentary Labor Party. It is my job to restore public confidence in that, and I intend to do it.
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