SafeWork SA

Mr TARZIA (Hartley) (14:17): My question is also to the Minister for Local Government. Is the minister content to wait 18 months for SafeWork SA to finalise its report while staff members at the City of Burnside are being subjected to bullying, harassment and stalking by an elected member?

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) (14:17): This is a matter that is relevant, obviously, to the activities of SafeWork SA and so forth. I will make inquiries of them. However, I am a bit concerned, I have to say, as to the form of the question because the form of the question, as it sounded to me, is stating what, as I would understand it, would be no greater than assertions and allegations from an area which I think is well known for having quite an exciting local government life.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The leader and deputy leader are on a full set of warnings.

Mr Pederick interjecting:

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

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I was not invoking a doctrine, the name of which is associated with another person; I was simply saying that I will make inquiries of the relevant agency. But I think we probably need to be mindful of the fact that there have been, as I can recall, almost for as long as I have been in this place, murmurings of discontent from that particular quarter—some of them more reliable than others—so it wouldn't be the first time there has been an allegation or, indeed, a counter allegation from there. However, I will make inquiries of the people who are doing an appropriate investigation.