Published: Loconut.com.au | 11th February 2008
Context:
Right on the back of a weekend of high praise for two history-making decisions to build a $1.1 Billion Sports Stadium and a $500 WA Museum, West Australian Premier Alan Carpenter is facing damaging new claims disgraced lobbyist and former premier Brian Burke and Julian Grill are still talking to government ministers.
The pair have been at the centre of a series of scandals over their influence, as evidence emerged in 2006 and 2007 at a long-running series of corruption watchdog hearings. Mr Carpenter last year reinstated the ban on ministerial contact with the lobbyists, which he’d controversially overturned in January 2006 when he took over as premier from Geoff Gallop.
