Commonwealth Games: production of documents

The question put

That this house: (1) notes: (a) the motion proposed by Mr David Limbrick MLC and resolved by the house on 1 May 2024 requiring the Leader of the Government to produce documents specifically outlined in appendix D of the select committee’s interim report on the 2026 Commonwealth Games bid; (b) the government’s response by way of a letter from the Attorney-General dated 30 May 2024, tabled in the house on 31 May 2024, making a claim of executive privilege over 350 documents in full and three documents in part; (c) that the Leader of the Government has not complied with standing order 10.03 that requires, like is the practice in the New South Wales Legislative Council, the documents to be lodged with the Clerk to permit: (i) Mr Limbrick to examine the documents over which a claim of executive privilege has been made and, if appropriate, Mr Limbrick to write to the Clerk disputing the validity of that claim; (ii) the President to appoint an independent legal arbiter to evaluate and report within seven calendar days as to the validity of the claim; (iii) the Clerk to release the disputed documents to that independent legal arbiter; (2) further notes that the Leader of the Government has