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Monday, 9 October 2000
Page: 21056


Mr LATHAM (3:34 PM) —I had a second matter, and that was to ask: under your administration of the parliament, have there been funding cuts or other changes which appear to have diminished the reliability of the daily Hansard? As an avid reader of this publication, I have noticed a surprisingly large number of errors in recent times. Just to give an example from the last couple of sitting days: if you go to page 18687 of the daily Hansard of last Wednesday, you will see that I asked the Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs a question on notice. The recorded answer is from the Treasurer, Mr Costello. I am not aware of any ministerial reshuffle. This is quite an alarming error and it seems to be indicative of a surprising decline. Could you report to the House on any monitoring of the reliability of the daily Hansard and any changes that might have led to these particular problems?


Mr SPEAKER (3:35 PM) —I will take up the matter with the principal Hansard officer. As an equally avid reader of Hansard for obvious reasons, I am not aware of a decline. But I will follow up the matter and report back to the member for Werriwa and the House.