TAFE SA

The Hon. G.G. BROCK (Frome) (15:10): My question is to the Minister for Education. Can the minister update the house on his response of 30 March to my question of 3 March this year regarding the regional consultation of the future direction of TAFE SA? With your leave, and that of the house, sir, I will explain further.

Leave granted.

The Hon. G.G. BROCK: In the minister's response, he stated:

TAFE SA is currently identifying opportunities for how it can improve transparency around its regional delivery and its support for regional industries and communities.

Minister, how long will it take before we get some direction from that consultation?

The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education) (15:11): I thank the member for the question. If I heard him correctly, he is concerned about a question that he raised in early March about TAFE SA's proposed approach to their regional strategy, so that was some two months ago. As the member was indeed a minister for regional development, I'm not sure how long consultations took under his period as a minister, but I'm not necessarily going to be terribly of the view that two months is an unreasonable amount of time to go from the question being raised to providing a final document. Indeed, as he asks me about the time frame, I look forward to TAFE SA issuing the final response.