District Court

The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON (15:28): My question is to the Attorney-General regarding our courts. Can the minister advise what is the average backlog in the District Court, with particular reference to criminal matters?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (15:28): I thank the honourable member for her question. There are a number of metrics used in reports, particularly the RoGS (Report on Government Services) that comes out each year. I will go back and check, but I think the latest ones were discussed pretty thoroughly during the estimates committee process. There are a number of metrics in terms of different sorts of cases, both civil and criminal, and different types of cases of backlogs and finalisation, but I will go back and have a look as I suspect they are in the answers to the estimates questions.