Lawlink contains press releases concerning the Attorney General's Department and its agencies issued usually under the name of the NSW Attorney General. What the public expects from that section of the Lawlink site is information concerning the Department's brief over law and justice and the services it provides, and about legislation and proposed legislation.
So it is fair to ask if the Minister should be issuing a press release as a cheap scoring trick over his political rivals and placing it on the department's website? The latest example is Mr Hatzistergos' claim that the Liberal Party's policy on the appointment of judges involves plagiarised material from a Melbourne law journal.
Is that the best Mr Hatzistergos can do with his personal staff's time - have them scanning material to find out if Mr Greg Smith or Mr Barry O'Farrell have engaged in plagiarism? What kind of obscurantist activity is that? Why does such a press release have to be on a departmental site as opposed to a political party website?
Perhaps then Mr Hatzistergos ought to issue a press release "outing" the NSW Labor Government's generous borrowing of interstate policies concerning the Super Department scheme (model 1 uplifted from the Liberal Jeff Kennett; model 2 from Qld Labor Premier Anna Bligh).
This kind of political trivia may be appropriate on Mr Hatzistergos' personal website or that of the ALP. It really is dubious putting a cheap political point scoring press release on a departmental website that is supposed to be about advising the public of new and existing services. One could infer that this is (a). wasting public resources of a government department to further a side-issue; (b). represents a misuse of a departmental website by a minister.
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