Published: September 05, 2018
Integrity experts criticise tabling of 80,000 pages of confidential documents in Victorian parliament
An unprecedented Victorian government decision to table 80,000 pages of confidential, unredacted documents concerning alleged misconduct by the opposition leader, Matthew Guy, is an irresponsible abuse of parliamentary privilege for political gain, integrity experts have said.
The documents, stacked across 32 boxes, were tabled in state parliament on Monday and concern Guy’s actions as planning minister from 2011 to 2013, starting with a botched and then rescinded attempt to rezone farmland near Ventnor on Phillip Island for a housing development and ending with a $2.5m confidential legal settlement.
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