Disability Housing

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:32): Supplementary arising from the original answer: can the minister even name three actual stakeholders she consulted with before deciding on the privatisation course?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:32): I am reluctant to name individuals or organisations because I know the way the Labor Party operates—they are bullies. They will then go and persecute those people. Should they ever, heaven forbid, be back in government, those names will be on someone's blacklist and they will be persecuted. As we know from their term in office—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: I am not even sure what the exercise of having all of our staff identified—the people who are the public servants within our ministerial offices being identified by the opposition, except that they too will end up on some Labor Party nasty blacklist somewhere. I am very reluctant to name organisations or individuals who I personally discussed these matters with, except to say that there was a range of stakeholders who represented all of those groups in some way or other.