Child Protection

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:23): Supplementary: when was the Attorney-General going to inform the people of South Australia that he wasn't going to fulfil the promise that had been made that the details of the transcripts would be released?

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) (14:24): All I am saying is that I formed the opinion that they could not be—

Mr van Holst Pellekaan interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Stuart is called to order.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I formed the opinion that they could not be released in an unedited form because there was a serious risk that victims associated with the subject matter of that inquiry might tend to be identified, or in some way further embarrassed or victimised, by the release of that information.

For that reason, I indicated to officers of the Attorney-General's Department that I needed to see whether they could undertake an exercise of removing material which might tend to identify those victims or in some way, in effect, revictimise them. I have already said in my last answer that I am happy to find out where that process is up to and how much additional work would be required to deal with it. The priority here is to make sure that those young people who were the subject matter of that inquiry do not suffer any more than they already have.