CHILD PROTECTION

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:55): A further supplementary, sir.

The SPEAKER: Yes.

Mr MARSHALL: Is the minister therefore satisfied with the education department's determination that this was a sexual harassment case, given that the police have now laid sexual assault charges over the very same matter?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (14:55): The matters are now before the court and, obviously, the police deem them to be more serious. I don't know what different information the police may have received as opposed to what the teachers received, so that is—

Ms Chapman: Did you ask?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE: I'm not privy to that information. I don't know what, if any, additional information was provided to the police, and I would expect that those sorts of things will be sorted as we go through the court process. As I've said, teachers are trained in relation to their responsibilities of mandatory reporting and we do expect them to comply with those.