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Thursday, 11 September 2003
Page: 19971


Mr Price asked the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 August 2003:

Further to the answer to question No. 1675, is the Defence portfolio funding the legal costs in the WA Medical Board of Inquiry into the doctor aboard HMAS Kanimbla; if so, what are the costs to date and what are the anticipated costs.


Mrs Vale (Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence) —The answer to the honourable member's question is as follows:

In accordance with the Attorney-General's Legal Service Directions, Defence is funding the legal costs of the doctor who is the subject of the inquiry. The details of amounts paid to his legal advisers are commercial-in-confidence.