STATE RECORDS

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:31): Supplementary.

The SPEAKER: Supplementary from the leader.

Mr MARSHALL: In the Attorney's answer, when he outlined the terms of reference for the Moss Review, there was nothing in those terms of reference which dealt with the substance of the question, which essentially was, with these 100 agencies which have outstanding action plans for non-compliance or areas or concern or whatever you want to call it, there is going to be no verification that there has been any corrective action taken at any of those agencies until 2014.

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:32): Actually I was answering your last question. That was the question before the last question but I am happy to answer that. As far as I am concerned, Mr Moss should be looking at these things. As I said, I issued the invitation to the opposition to speak with Mr Moss, and I actually do not disagree with the Leader of the Opposition that it would be useful for that 2014 timeline to be brought forward.

To the extent that it is possible for State Records to do that, fine, but Mr Moss is not State Records, and he is not an auditor. So, I am happy to have that moved forward as quickly as it possibly can be, but Mr Moss's job is basically to look at whether the legislative framework is adequate and whether it is working. I think it is fairly clear that the government by commissioning this report by Mr Moss is saying as clearly as we can to the public and to the opposition, 'We think it could be better and that is why we are asking him to do it.'