Child Protection

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:28): Will the minister give some consideration to asking Margaret Nyland to bring down an interim recommendation regarding the commissioner for children and young people?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for the Public Sector) (14:28): No, the reason I won't do that is that, although I'm sure there are incidences where there is a very particular question that can be asked that could be answered in the absence of the full context of the royal commissioner's report, my understanding and expectation is that what she will contribute that will guide us in our consideration in this place of the appropriate institution will be an understanding of a way in which to manage the child protection system. I would not expect her to wish to detach a particular institution from the rest of her considerations, and I certainly won't be asking her to turn her mind that way.