Treasurer Peter Gutwein has ignored directions of a high-powered parliamentary committee to release an unredacted document on the proposed sale of the Tamar Valley Power Station.
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The Public Accounts Committee last week issued a summons for the Treasurer to reappear at its inquiry examining the 2016 energy crisis.
The committee had asked on two occasions for Mr Gutwein to release a full version of a letter he sent to Energy Minister Matthew Groom on the power station’s sale.
A version of the letter had previously been released in a redacted form through a Right to Information request.
Mr Gutwein told the committee this morning that he would not release the document, citing cabinet confidentially.
He tabled a letter from former Labor Premier Lara Giddings that used the same reasoning for not releasing information in 2012 to a Legislative Council committee's investigation into cost reduction strategies of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Mr Gutwein said Ms Giddings had not been summonsed to do so as he had.
“I would have willingly attended today without the political theatre of a summons,” he said.
After some debate with chairman Ivan Dean over a decision not to allow him to continue to read a prepared statement to the committee, Mr Gutwein accused the committee’s inquiry of being politicised and censoring a witness.
“This reeks of a kangaroo court,” he said.