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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 1442 asked in the Legislative Council on 27 November 2019 by Hon Peter Collier

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

CARNEGIE CLEAN ENERGY — FOI REQUEST — REDACTION

1442. Hon PETER COLLIER to the Minister for Regional Development:

I refer to the minister's decision to redact the final paragraph of page 1 of document 29 in FOI application 64-09596 received by the office of the Leader of the Opposition on 25 February 2019. I also refer to the ruling of the Information Commissioner to overturn the minister's decision to redact the paragraph, which revealed the text of the paragraph as —

Seeking an independent assessment, DPIRD commissioned a Financial Viability Assessment (Report) on Carnegie, which rated its financial position to be 'unsatisfactory' and scored it 1.6 out of a possible 10 (Attachment 1).

(1) Why did the minister redact the final paragraph of page 1 of document 29 in the FOI document?

(2) Will the minister now table attachment 1 referred to in the paragraph; and, if not, why not?

Hon ALANNAH MacTIERNAN replied:

(1) It is important to note that the member's question refers to two separate FOI applications, made at different times, by different applicants, and with different scopes. However, in relation to FOI application 64-09596 made by the office of the Leader of the Opposition, the paragraph was redacted on the basis that it would reveal information about the commercial and financial affairs of Carnegie Clean Energy. Following the external review by the Information Commissioner of a similar FOI application, Carnegie Clean Energy was consulted on the release of this paragraph and did not respond.

(2) The report is clearly commercial in nature to Carnegie Clean Energy and is marked strictly confidential and commercial-in-confidence.