Child Protection

Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (15:07): My question is to the Minister for Child Protection. Has she met with SACOSS since becoming the Minister for Child Protection?

The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection) (15:07): I have met with SACOSS unofficially at different functions. However, my priority, unlike the former government, the Labor government, is to firstly go out and meet all of the department staff to see on the ground what is happening, how we can assist them, what pressure they are under—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER Order!

The Hon. R. SANDERSON: —and to meet the children who are under my guardianship and to see the residential care facilities where they live. Unlike the former Labor government, who had never even visited Oakden, which was an absolute shame—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER Order! The minister has the call.

The Hon. R. SANDERSON: —my priority is the staff and the children first. When I have visited all of those, we are working on the terrible contracts that the Labor government have left us with in residential care and commercial care, then foster care we need to fix up. There is an endless list of mess that has been left by your government that I am working on.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER Order! Supplementary, member for Badcoe.