Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator Watt, I move:

That—

(a) the following documents relating to the Bell Group liquidation and the Western Australian Bell Group Companies (Finalisation of Matters and Distribution of Proceeds) legislation be provided to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee by the Attorney-General:

  (i) correspondence, including but not limited to, briefings, letters, memoranda and aides memoire between the Attorney-General and:

(A) the Treasurer of Western Australia,

(B) the Attorney-General of Western Australia, and

(C) the Solicitor-General,

  (ii) any file notes held of any meetings between the Attorney-General and:

(A) the Treasurer of Western Australia,

(B) the Attorney-General of Western Australia, and

(C) the Solicitor-General,

  (iii) briefings to the Attorney-General from the Solicitor-General, Australian Government Solicitor and Attorney-General's Department, and

  (iv) correspondence between the Australian Government Solicitor and the Attorney-General's Department and the Western Australian Department of the Attorney-General, or the Western Australian State Solicitor's Office;

(b) the time frame for the documents covered by this motion is 1 November 2015 to 30 March 2016; and

(c) the documents be provided by no later than 14 December 2016.