SETTLEMENT SERVICES FOR HUMANITARIAN ENTRANTS

In reply to Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (12 October 2010).

Ms PORTOLESI (Hartley—Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers): In response to a question (Hansard Estimates Committee A, page 272), I advised the committee that Sophia Poppe had been appointed to gather data on settlement services provided to humanitarian entrants in South Australia.

I have since been advised that in late 2009 and early 2010, Multicultural SA engaged a contractor, Alina Lebed, to gather the data on settlement services provided to humanitarian entrants. This data will soon be available on the Multicultural SA website.

The Government appointed Sophia Poppe as the Director of Settlement Services for Humanitarian Entrants in April this year and she has been consulting very extensively with people in the sector.