House of Assembly: Wednesday, September 08, 2021

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Member for Waite

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:02): My question is to the Premier. Has the Premier spoken to the Hon. Tammy Franks since the acquittal of the member for Waite on 24 August 2021 regarding the member for Waite's actions?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:02): I speak to, as I said, various members of this house and the other house on a range of issues. I am certainly not going to be canvassing those issues here in question time. I think it is only right that we can speak to members in this parliament.

There are a range of issues I share with the honourable member, in particular our great vision for creating a voice to parliament, a voice to government. This is an area which I think needs to be addressed. It's one that we are working on. We know that Commissioner Roger Thomas has been doing quite a lot of extensive work in this area over the past 12 months to 18 months during the coronavirus. We are working on the final format for that.

Whilst I have only spoken in general terms to the Hon. Tammy Franks about that, she is very supportive. We previously served on the Aboriginal Lands Parliamentary Standing Committee together with the member for Florey and also a previous member of the Labor Party—I can't remember the name of the seat.

The Hon. V.A. Chapman: Taylor.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: Taylor. Yes, you are quite right—Taylor.