Question Time

STATE RECORDS

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:05): My question is to the Attorney-General. Can the Attorney-General confirm for the house that there has never been a review of records management in ministerial offices, and that these offices were deliberately excluded from a 2010 agency review of all other state government agencies and their compliance with the State Records Act?

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): I thank the honourable member for the question. The question is in two parts. The first part is about the 2010 review, and the second part implies that there was some deliberate action on the part of executive government to ensure that ministerial offices were not agencies that were the subject of any review.

I have no information available to me to suggest that there was any direction issued by executive government to the effect that ministerial offices, which are agencies for the purposes of the State Records Act, were deliberately (and I use the word used in the question) exempted from that review. I can, however, tell the parliament and the Leader of the Opposition that, at a briefing which the leader and I attended this morning, Mr Ryan from the State Records Office did indicate that it was the case that the ministerial offices were not amongst the group of offices that were reviewed.

Mrs Redmond: Just coincidentally.

Mr MARSHALL: A supplementary.

The SPEAKER: Before a supplementary, I call the member for Heysen to order.