STANDING COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE AND PRIVILEGES —
FIFTY-FIFTH REPORT —ATTORNEY GENERAL
1036. Hon MICHAEL MISCHIN to the Leader of the House
representing the Attorney General:
I refer to the Standing Committee on Procedure and Privileges'
inquiry into the potential contempt of Parliament by Department of the Premier
and Cabinet Director General Foster and Acting Director General Roper, and the
committee's fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth reports.
(1) Has the
Attorney General provided to any member of the media a copy of correspondence
from the President or the Clerk of the house pertaining to those matters?
(2) If yes to
(1), please identify each item of correspondence provided, when and to whom it
was provided, and for what purpose it was provided.
(3) Has the
Attorney General's chief of staff provided to any member of the media a
copy of correspondence from the President or from the Clerk of the house
pertaining to those matters?
(4) If yes to
(4), please identify each item of correspondence provided, when and to whom it
was provided, and for what purpose it was provided.
Hon STEPHEN DAWSON
replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the
question. The following answer is provided on behalf of the Leader of the House
representing the Attorney General.
(1)–(2)
The Attorney General has not provided any correspondence to the media that has
not been tabled in a report from the Standing Committee on Procedure and
Privileges.
(3)–(4)
The Attorney General believes that his chief of staff has provided a copy of an
invitation to her from the President of the
house to some of her former colleagues in the media. The letter was not marked ''confidential''.