The House of Assembly revealed something very scary today.
As we all might have anticipated the HOA question period was filled with inquiry over the Coleman affair.
I await the Hansard - in order to demonstrate how many times Minister McGrath used the word verbal when explaining the process of determining the release from Contract of Humber Valley Paving.
There was apparently verbal communication between the Minister and Premier on this subject. There were all kinds of verbal communications between the Minister and representatives of the company. The only thing I heard that might have been in writing is the document that released Humber Valley Paving from the contract and any consequence of bond.
This was a multi-million dollar contract between government and Humber Valley Paving and it was with a company where Frank Coleman (the incoming Premier) was CEO and majority shareholder. The discussions - as they were mostly verbal - will not give us real time frames and will not confirm or deny that these discussions were being held at a time Frank Coleman may have been looking at a run for the leadership of the Tories.
These very important details seem to have no written back-up. I remember a time not so long ago - where Ministers were not taking briefing notes - they were being briefed verbally. Here we go again.
Of course this stinks - because the company was apparently sold and could have been in a real unsaleable state had the bond been tested. This going on at a time just prior to Frank Coleman announcing his candidacy for the Tories and via our system the keys to the Premier's Office.
Oh yes this needs to be investigated. The sooner the better. What options do we have now to prevent such negotiations going on verbally - leaving us - the people, the taxpayer, their boss - without any paper trail?
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