CHILD PROTECTION

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:11): My question again is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Was the matter in respect of the student wrongly accused of accessing pornography at a regional school ever referred to the police by your department and, if so, on what date?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (14:12): To my knowledge, it was not referred to the police. I understand that it was an investigation that was undertaken at the school level. We are talking here about someone in the school accessing pornography on a departmental computer, as I understand it. I doubt very much whether police would have been interested in that, but I do understand that the young person himself had approached police at different times and is now engaged with the police in relation to another matter.

The SPEAKER: Supplementary.