Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My further supplementary question is on the matters the minister has raised about the 2007 site nomination deed, which the minister referred to in his previous answer, between the Commonwealth, the Northern Land Council and Muckaty Land Trust, which did provide a schedule of payments to a charitable fund, as the minister noted. Given that this contract was highly contested and remains to this day a matter of considerable public interest and given that it is for an amount exceeding the Murray motion Senate requirement of 2001, which requires contracts over $100,000 to be made public, will the government refer this contract to the Auditor-General’s office for it to undertake an assessment of the contract to determine whether or not it should be deemed commercial in confidence? If not, why not?