Traffic Management

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (14:13): Thank you, sir. My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. What advice has the minister sought about security and privacy risks that the privatisation of traffic monitoring cameras pose to South Australians?

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:13): Well, again, I think this forms part of something that I am happy to get a more fulsome answer in relation to, but we have a traffic management centre here in South Australia, in Adelaide. That traffic management centre continues to undertake the functions in relation to the storage and any dissemination of footage in relation to that in the same way. There certainly hasn't been anything from my ministerial perspective that has seen a change in that process.

However, again, I think that right across government, whether that be in my portfolio or any portfolio across government, there need to be very strong privacy protocols. Many areas of government deal with very sensitive information—essentially personal information—and as a government we need to have strong privacy protocols in relation to that. That would be no different from my department, whether that be in the public transport space.

Certainly, the CCTV footage from buses, or, for instance, the new body-worn cameras we are rolling out to our operations people, is making sure that we can collect more evidence when we see people commit assaults on our bus drivers. Again, there needs to be a strong protocol across government. I haven't seen anything that suggests that that has changed.