Dob in a Litterer App

The Hon. M.C. PARNELL (15:16): Further supplementary: with the indulgence of the council, I have downloaded the app while the minister was speaking and it includes the phrase, 'By submitting a report you acknowledge that you may be requested to attend court and act as a witness to any contested matter.' My supplementary question is: if 800 people have downloaded the app, have any of them actually used it? Have any of those uses resulted in expiations, and have any users been requested to attend court or to provide evidence in support of their dobbing-in of a litterer?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (15:16): I am indebted. I thank the Hon. Mr Parnell for his help in this instance. He is an avid tech user, we all know that, and in fact he is very adept at it. I am very grateful for his assistance in that regard. I hope, the Hon. Mr McLachlan, that that will be sufficient answer for you and that I won't need to come back to this place with further certainty. We will just assume that's the case, Mr President, and I withdraw my promise to come back to him, given that it has been answered by the Hon. Mr Mark Parnell.

As I said, I think this app has been used for two weeks, so I would think it very unlikely that some of the eventualities the Hon. Mr Parnell mentioned have eventuated just yet. He will recall, from my original response to the question from the Hon. Gail Gago, that our first response to people who may be reported for committing, potentially, an offence will be to write to them and advise them of the report that we have had and attempt to educate them about why that sort of behaviour is not to be encouraged. However, that will be the first and only notice, and subsequent reports of the same individual or the same registered individual will mean that they will need to be expiated.