Attorney-General

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:46): My question is to the Premier. How can the Attorney-General continue in her capacity as minister responsible for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions while it is contemplating charges against her?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Premier has the call. Members on my left, be quiet.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:46): I know that this—

The Hon. S.C. Mullighan interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Lee!

Mr Malinauskas: This is unbelievable. There are no standards in your government. It's a disgrace.

The SPEAKER: Leader of the Opposition, be quiet. If I don't have quiet, members will be leaving the chamber.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: I thank the Attorney-General for providing an update to the house. I don't think that there is anything extraordinary whatsoever in the statement that the Attorney-General has made. As the Attorney-General has previously stated, the government has advice that there has been no breach of the ICAC Act.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: The information—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The Premier has the call.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —that has been provided by those opposite—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Lee is on two warnings. The member for Ramsay is on two warnings.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —is really information that has been on the public record for an extended period of time. I don't know what they have been doing. They certainly haven't been reading the paper. There is this other thing at home in the corner, usually. It's called the television, and you can turn it on. All of this has been on the public record for an extended period of time. I thank the Attorney-General—

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Leader of the Opposition, please!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —for providing an update to the house. As for the assertion that there should be somebody standing aside, the member for Gillman—I mean the member for West Torrens—isn't here at the moment, but I can't recall—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —members opposite standing aside when there was—

The SPEAKER: Premier, please do not provoke the opposition.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —an investigation into the Gillman matter or the Oakden matter or the rape of a student at a western suburbs school. I would like them to outline to the house in detail how often members opposite stood aside when they were being investigated.