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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Safeguarding Taskforce</name>
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        <heading>Safeguarding Taskforce</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="question">
        <name>Mr MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Croydon</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Safeguarding Taskforce</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5084">Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:17):</by>  My question is to the Premier. Has anyone at the cabinet level of government approved the terms of reference?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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          <question date="2020-06-02">
            <name>Safeguarding Taskforce</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:17):</by>  This is a task force that reports to the Minister for Human Services, so I have no doubt that she has detailed knowledge of the scope of—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! The member for West Torrens is warned and the member for Badcoe is called to order.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  —what the work is. As I have just outlined in quite a lot of detail—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5387">Mr Brown interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20200602e7b4b6dce63241b190000397">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Member for Playford!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  —I am not sure if those opposite were listening—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  —it is broad. We want to make sure that we don't limit the work of this task force. In addition to the work that is being done by the task force, those opposite should be aware by now that SAPOL in South Australia is conducting a major crime investigation into a recent death, the death of Ann Marie Smith, a tragic death, a death that members of SAPOL described as a disgraceful and degrading death. SAPOL is conducting an investigation.</text>
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        <text id="20200602e7b4b6dce63241b190000402">I am also informed that the Coroner will be conducting an inquest following the major crime investigation from SAPOL. More than that, the federal government, the minister Stuart Robert, has announced that there will be a judicial inquiry into this death. So there are multiple investigations underway: SAPOL, ultimately the Coroner in South Australia, a federal judicial inquiry and, in addition to that, we have established this task force, not to report in six, nine or 12 months but to report as quickly as possible.</text>
        <text id="20200602e7b4b6dce63241b190000403">For every person in South Australia, especially those people who are vulnerable, we need to make sure that we have the highest level provision of services, whether they are provided at the state level or in this case at the federal level, that we have adequate oversight of those services and that, if things go wrong, there is an investigation put in place as quickly as possible.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5571">Mr Szakacs interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Cheltenham is called to order.</text>
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