Mark Ray Haydon

Mr TEAGUE (Heysen) (14:29): Supplementary: in light of the answer, has the government already given any consideration to the action available to it in response to the Parole Board's decision today?

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:29): I thank the shadow attorney-general for his question. The government is in receipt of advice that there is a 60-day window for us to contemplate the potential appeal. We will take our time to get the appropriate advice, naturally. The Parole Board has only announced its decision in the last couple of hours, so we will take that advice in a timely way and assess it on its merits.

I do note, however, that the Parole Board has also put a number of conditions in terms of the parole. Those conditions will have some effect in their own right should they come into effect in the event that parole is realised, but the government, as I said, always contemplates these matters in accordance with legal advice and we will be doing everything that we have available to us as a state government to make sure that community safety is the paramount consideration, and that is something that we would expect of the legislature more broadly.