CHILD PROTECTION

Mr PISONI (Unley) (14:16): My question is to the Attorney-General, not the acting education minister. Is the minister aware of any school-based sexual assault charges currently in the courts system other than the after-school care worker at the centre of the Debelle inquiry?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:17): I thank the honourable member for his question. As far as I am aware, the only matter that is before the courts presently is the individual that the member for Unley has been speaking about for some time now and is central to the Debelle inquiry. I must say though, in providing that information, I need to make it very clear to the house that I do not routinely make inquiries about these matters, and indeed have never specifically made an inquiry as to how many people might be before the courts in any particular classification of offending or alleged offending at any one time. What I am saying is: what has been brought to my attention, so far as I am aware, is this matter; that is it.