❓ Mr. Ripper questions the Minister for Tourism about the release of a structural review report on Rottnest Island accommodation units, citing a Coronial Investigation as a barrier. The Minister claims the report is sub judice and cannot be released, sparking disagreement from other members.
AnsweredQoN 940Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
ROTTNEST ISLAND — REPORT ON STRUCTURAL REVIEW
I refer to an online news report by ABC news on 17 November, which states — … the full report — That is, of the independent structural review of Rottnest Island accommodation units — can’t be made public because the matter is subject to a Coronial Investigation. (1) Will the minister confirm that it is only a report commissioned at the request of the State Coroner that is bound by this legal confidentiality? (2) Was this report commissioned at the request of the coroner? (3) If no to (2), why will the minister not release the full report? (4) If this report was commissioned at the request of the coroner, will the minister table that coroner’s request at a later stage of this day’s sitting; and, if not, why not? Dr E. CONSTABLE
I refer to an online news report by ABC news on 17 November, which states — … the full report — That is, of the independent structural review of Rottnest Island accommodation units — can’t be made public because the matter is subject to a Coronial Investigation. (1) Will the minister confirm that it is only a report commissioned at the request of the State Coroner that is bound by this legal confidentiality? (2) Was this report commissioned at the request of the coroner? (3) If no to (2), why will the minister not release the full report? (4) If this report was commissioned at the request of the coroner, will the minister table that coroner’s request at a later stage of this day’s sitting; and, if not, why not? Dr E. CONSTABLE
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
(2) Was this report commissioned at the request of the coroner? (3) If no to (2), why will the minister not release the full report? (4) If this report was commissioned at the request of the coroner, will the minister table that coroner’s request at a later stage of this day’s sitting; and, if not, why not? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
(3) If no to (2), why will the minister not release the full report? (4) If this report was commissioned at the request of the coroner, will the minister table that coroner’s request at a later stage of this day’s sitting; and, if not, why not? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
(4) If this report was commissioned at the request of the coroner, will the minister table that coroner’s request at a later stage of this day’s sitting; and, if not, why not? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
(1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
(2) Was this report commissioned at the request of the coroner? (3) If no to (2), why will the minister not release the full report? (4) If this report was commissioned at the request of the coroner, will the minister table that coroner’s request at a later stage of this day’s sitting; and, if not, why not? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
(3) If no to (2), why will the minister not release the full report? (4) If this report was commissioned at the request of the coroner, will the minister table that coroner’s request at a later stage of this day’s sitting; and, if not, why not? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
(4) If this report was commissioned at the request of the coroner, will the minister table that coroner’s request at a later stage of this day’s sitting; and, if not, why not? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
(1)-(4) I have been advised by the chief executive officer of Rottnest Island that that report has been sent to the State Coroner. I am not certain whether it was requested by the coroner, but it has been sent to the coroner. I have been advised today that it is sub judice and I am unable to release it. Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms M.M. Quirk : That’s rubbish! Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms M.M. Quirk : It’s wrong, minister. Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : That is the advice I have received today. I have checked it out this morning. Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Mr E.S. Ripper : From whom did you receive it? Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : The legal officer in my office. Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms M.M. Quirk : Ministers have legal officers? Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : He is a lawyer. He is a policy officer but he happens to be a lawyer. Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
The SPEAKER : Members! Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I will repeat the advice I have received from the CEO of the Rottnest Island Authority and from a legally trained person in my office. That report has been sent to the coroner and as such it is sub judice. I have not seen a copy of that — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan : It is not sub judice. You don’t have sub judice on a coroner’s report. Sub judice refers to jury matters. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Members to my left may think that they have better answers to provide the house than the answer the minister is providing. The opportunity at the moment is for the minister to provide the answer to the question, not for anybody else. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am told — Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Ms A.J.G. MacTiernan interjected. The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
The SPEAKER : I ask the minister to take her seat. Member for Armadale, I formally call you for the first time. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, I am told that it would be totally inappropriate for that information to be released until the coroner has dealt with it. Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Mr E.S. Ripper : You have been told wrongly. Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Dr E. CONSTABLE : Mr Speaker, that is all I can offer as an explanation for that.
Explore WA Government Data
Search the full archive in the free dashboard, or query programmatically via API.
Explore more
Government Gazette
Appointments, regulatory notices, planning changes.
Hansard
Debates, questions, speeches and sentiment.
Tabled Papers
Reports and documents tabled in Parliament.
Committees
Committee profiles and recent reports.
Regulations
Subsidiary legislation with filters and summaries.
Bills
Proposed laws and parliamentary progress.
Acts
Current WA legislation and summaries.
Explanatory Memoranda
Bills with EMs (text/PDF) available.
Members
MP profiles, party breakdown and rankings.
Pollie Rankings
Data-driven rankings across 19 categories.
Amendment Chains
Track how schemes and regulations evolve over time.