Child Protection

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:09): Supplementary. Is the minister genuinely trying to assert that her comments regarding the fact that no child notification had been received were relating to his pre-employment check; and is this plausible given that the entire interview was based on the Advertiser article which was asserting—

The SPEAKER: The leader is now commenting. Minister.

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development) (14:09): Thank you sir. Yes it was and if the leader—

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The minister will be seated. I call the leader to order. He asked the question, now he will listen to the answer. Minister.

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE: Thank you, sir, and if the leader bothered to read the entirety of that transcript he would see that on each occasion when I was asked about the substance of the article in the Advertiser I repeated consistently that I couldn't comment about that.