Questions and Answers No. 78, Friday 24 November 2000
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PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES
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No. 78
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
QUESTIONS
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ANSWERS
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SECOND SESSION OF THE FIFTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT
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FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2000
(The Questions and Answers Paper published for the first sitting day in each week will contain, by number and title, all unanswered questions, together with questions to which answers have been received on the previous sitting and any new questions. On subsequent days, new questions are printed, as are questions to which answers were received the previous day. Consequently the full text of any question will be printed only twice: when notice is given; and, when answered.)
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Q&A No. 68 (Including Question Nos 671 to 679)
| 5 December 2000 |
Q&A No. 69 (Nil Questions)
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| 7 December 2000 |
Q&A No. 71 (Including Question Nos 693 to 698)
| 19 December 2000 |
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| 20 December 2000 |
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| 22 December 2000 |
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| 26 December 2000 |
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| 27 December 2000 |
Q&A No. 77 (Nil Questions)
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Q&A No. 78 (Including Question No. 728)
| 29 December 2000 |
24 NOVEMBER 2000
(Paper No. 78)
728 POLICE—STATEMENT PROCEDURES—Mr Breen to ask the Treasurer, Minister for State Development, and Vice-President of the Executive Council representing the Minister for Police—
(1) Does the Minister recall providing me with information on 7 June 2000 to the effect that New South Wales police are entitled to refuse witnesses copies of their statements?
(2) Can the Minister inform the House what public benefit flows from this practice, particularly in the light of a report in yesterday’s (23 November 2000) Daily Telegraph about the case of Lisa Van Woudenberg?
(3) Is the Minister aware that Ms Van Woudenberg was interviewed about a particular incident 8 years after the event by Detectives Michael Bostock and Michael Lennon and that:
(a) she was pressured into giving a statement,
(b) she was refused a copy of the statement, and
(c) she cannot recall what was said?
(4) Is the Minister also aware that the testimony of Ms Van Woudenberg is now a critical issue in the investigation of the murder of Phil Dilworth and that the testimony may be tainted by the failure of the police to provide Ms Van Woudenberg with a copy of her statement?
(6) Does the Minister agree that the practice is out of line with current moral, ethical, professional and community standards, and represents an opportunity for a miscarriage of justice as demonstrated by the case of Ms Van Woudenberg?
(7) Will the Minister undertake to arrange for all witnesses who have made statements to the police since the Wood Royal Commission to be provided with copies of their statements?
John Evans
Clerk of the Parliaments
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Authorised by the Parliament of New South Wales