Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Does the government have any concerns at all that we now have two allegations of unfair treatment by the ombudsman, who you would expect the community should have some confidence will treat any inquiry fairly and give due process to any inquiry? We now have in the space of 24 hours two allegations that the ombudsman is not treating this process fairly in the view of the two people making the allegation. Particularly given that there is a history around the operations of the ombudsman, does the government have no concern to all that we are in a situation where for a second time we appear to be having questions asked around the way the ombudsman is operating, particularly given that this is supposed to be a private process and yet one of the protagonists in the whole process is given a letter, which I have to say in my view was misrepresented, but was given a letter the day before an anti-company rally was to be held in Hobart so that it could be used as part of that anti-company rally. Does the government have any concerns that this seems to be occurring for a second time?