Commissioner for Children and Young People

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:16): Supplementary, sir, to the Minister for Education: in respect of the suspension of section 5 of the act that has been referred to, which is the obligation to comply with the United Nations treaty, if the commissioner has asked that she be relieved of the responsibility to comply with that, why does she advertise on her website in the introduction that the work of the Commissioner for Children and Young People is guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the core international treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights which all children are entitled to? Having published that, why then, minister, did she ask you—and you say your government acquiesced—to suspend section 5?

The SPEAKER: Can we, instead of being desultory about it, get to the point of a question. Minister.

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:17): Given that the questions that are being asked relate to an officer who holds a very significant role in our community, I will take that question on notice in order to have a conversation with her and bring back a fulsome and accurate answer.

Mr Pisoni: You didn't know that was on the website.

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley I call to order.