Child Protection

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:40): Has the government received any advice from SAPOL against making an application to lifting suppression orders?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Industrial Relations) (14:40): So far as I am aware, SAPOL does not make it a habit of advising us, in the context of them knowing the default position is a certain way, about the default position if they are happy with it. I am not aware of SAPOL having asked to have the default position changed—the default position being a suppression order for the time being—and I am confident that, if SAPOL considered it to be in the public interest that that default position were to be departed from, they would approach government, presumably either directly to me in my office or through my ministerial colleague, minister Piccolo.

The SPEAKER: A further supplementary?