Residential Care Facility Visits

Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (14:37): My question is to the Minister for Child Protection. What qualifications does the minister have for counselling vulnerable young children in residential care?

The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN: Point of order, Mr Speaker.

The SPEAKER: Point of order. Qualifications? Yes?

The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN: The question assumes that there has been counselling administered by the minister. That is a presumption of a fact that has not been either alleged or admitted in this forum.

The SPEAKER: Could you please repeat the question, member for Badcoe?

Ms STINSON: I can, Mr Speaker. What qualifications does the minister have for counselling vulnerable young people in residential care?

The SPEAKER: The Minister for Child Protection has the call.

The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection) (14:38): As the Minister for Child Protection, I believe it is my role to visit and listen to the voices of the children who are under my care. Along with the staff, I have been meeting department staff, residential care staff, foster carers, kinship carers and children. I will continue to listen to the voices who, under the former Labor government, were never heard. We have a mess of a child protection system, and I will do everything I can to fix it.

The Hon. V.A. Chapman interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Deputy Premier is warned.