CHILD PROTECTION

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:04): Supplementary to the Attorney-General: when did the Attorney-General become aware that the alleged child sex offender operating a southern suburbs gymnastics centre was able to have his original bail conditions relaxed to drive a bus full of children interstate for five days as a gymnastics coach and team manager?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Attorney, before you begin, I call to order the Minister for Police and I call to order the Minister for Transport. Attorney-General.

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:05): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I think it is important for members opposite to know, and I will make this very clear, that I as Attorney-General do not—I repeat, do not—sit down and survey every single decision of every single court every single day so that I am familiar with what every single defendant in South Australia is doing at any point in time.

If I were to do that, I would be even busier than I am presently, and I don't have the time to do that. So, from time to time, people make me aware of particular issues, and so far as I am aware the first time that any suggestion about driving a bus has come to my attention has been in the last 24 hours, when it has been raised by, I believe, the member for Unley—who had been sitting on that information and not telling the police about it for about a fortnight.