Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:02): Supplementary to the Premier: given the Premier's commitment to the state inquiry and the importance of the victims telling their story and the therapeutic benefits of that, will he now require the Attorney-General to apologise to those who sought to still put their stories to the national inquiry, particularly those outside the terms of reference that were offered in the state inquiry?

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier) (15:03): I think this is a misconstruction of the Attorney's remarks. The Attorney was responding to questions about whether he would agree to establish a new form of redress in the context of us already having established a state form of redress, and I do not think the construction that the honourable member is putting on his remarks is a fair one. I don't think I have anything I can add.