Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Attorney ­-General be required to provide to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, by no later than noon on 7 April 2017, the following documents relating to the Bell Group liquidation and the Bell Act:

(a) correspondence between the Attorney-General and Ms O'Dwyer in March and April 2016;

(b) a letter from the former Solicitor-General, Mr Justin Gleeson, to the Attorney-General regarding the High Court proceedings in the Bell matter, dated 15 March 2016;

(c) the email chain between the offices of the Solicitor-General and Attorney-General entitled 'Bell - Commissioner of Taxation request for advice from the Solicitor-General - referral to Counsel Assisting the Solicitor-General [SEC=PROTECTED, DLM=Sensitive: Legal]', dated 6 and 7 March 2016; and

(d) the submission from the Attorney-General's Department to the Attorney-General's office on the question of intervention in the Bell matter, dated 28 January 2016.