Homelessness

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:31): My question is to the Minister for Human Services regarding homelessness. Is the minister aware if her chief executive, when visiting the street kitchen in Whitmore Square, was accompanied by either a member of the safety and wellbeing task force, a member of the minister's department, or a member of the chief executive's immediate family?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:32): I have responded to a number of these questions already in this parliament and I don't intend to provide any more factual information because I have laid out all the facts already. The opposition can try to make stuff up—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —cast slurs on people, try to draw all kinds of peculiar—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —elements together because they think they've got something, but the rest of us are all just shaking our heads in bewilderment about—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Ms Bourke!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —their line of questioning.