House of Assembly Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3) 51 3 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Question Time Law and Order Issues Postcard LAW AND ORDER ISSUES POSTCARD Ms CHAPMAN House of Assembly Bragg LAW AND ORDER ISSUES POSTCARD Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (15:10): My question is to the Attorney-General. In response to the postcard to which the Attorney-General said yesterday the response have been 'so overwhelming', can the Attorney-General tell the house how many responses have been received and why haven't they been forwarded to the Leader of the Opposition? The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: I do not think the Attorney— Members interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Order! I do not think the Attorney has any responsibility. I have not seen the card, but I do not think the Attorney is on it. But if the Attorney wants to respond— Members interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Order! The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON House of Assembly Croydon Attorney-General Minister for Justice Minister for Multicultural Affairs Minister for Veterans' Affairs The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON (Croydon—Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (15:11): Clearly, the Leader of the Opposition has lost control of the tactics of the parliamentary Liberal Party today. The situation is that it is a fact, an irrefutable fact on Hansard, that the parliamentary Liberal Party voted against the recidivist youth offenders provision— Members interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Order! The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON House of Assembly The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: —in the Young Offenders Act. Members interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Order! The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON House of Assembly The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: Isobel Redmond wanted to keep the Gang of 49 out of detention, or if they went into detention— Members interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Order! The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON House of Assembly The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: —Isobel Redmond wanted them to serve as little time as possible. Members interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Order! Ms CHAPMAN House of Assembly Ms CHAPMAN: Mr Speaker, the question was very specific: how many and why haven't you handed them on to the Leader of the Opposition? The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: The Attorney-General. The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON House of Assembly The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: All Isobel Redmond wants to do is hug the Gang of 49, not put them in detention. Members interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Order! Ms CHAPMAN House of Assembly Ms CHAPMAN: Point of order, Mr Speaker: I ask that you rule— The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: The Attorney I think has completed his answer—the Attorney-General. Members interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Order! The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON House of Assembly The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: The leaflet or card, distributed by the Australian Labor Party, is entirely factual; it is entirely correct in its reporting— Members interjecting: The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Order! The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON House of Assembly The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: —and I am sure that the Australian Labor Party will be willing to share the responses with the Leader of the Opposition.