Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

On the first of the two-part supplementary question: no, governments of both persuasions have never released scoping studies, because they contain commercial-in-confidence material. On the second question, with regard to the legal advice on the government’s position that it is taxpayers who own the fund and the company, I am pleased to be able to table today advice from Mr Tom Bathurst QC, which strongly supports the government’s position and completely rejects the opinion of the Parliamentary Library on this matter.