Child Protection

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:45): A further supplementary, sir: would the other Minister for Child Protection like to clarify the situation?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for Consumer and Business Services, Minister for the City of Adelaide) (14:45): This is something that members opposite do quite frequently, which is to ask—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley is on thin ice.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: —a question, purportedly quoting something which is said by somebody, without any reference to it, and to say, 'Well, what do we think about this?' If the Leader of the Opposition has a specific thing that he would like to share with my ministerial colleague or me—just as he did with that press release which didn't clarify things much, but never mind—he can. But the fact is, as I can tell you, as a matter of fact we as a government had not rejected anything—

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Let me finish—because we haven't considered everything. All we have done is said that there are some things we are going to do, and we will do them straightaway. Some of those are in the parliament today; the rest of them we will get to, we hope, by the end of the year, as the minister has said.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I would be interested to know what the opposition thinks about the whole 260 recommendations.

The SPEAKER: The member for Adelaide is warned for the second and final time. The Treasurer is warned.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I would be very interested to know whether the opposition has come to a conclusion about that and the other 259 recommendations because it would be good for them to share their thoughts on that. They might even be able to tell us what their costings are for the things they have agreed to—that would be handy as well.

Mr Marshall: Next question to me?

The SPEAKER: One normally denotes one's willingness to do that by standing.

Mr MARSHALL: It's not a supplementary, that's why I was waiting for the call. So, did you give me the call?

The SPEAKER: Yes. The leader.