Coroner's Court

The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON (14:22): Supplementary question: can the minister please advise that, unless there are suppression or confidentiality orders that have been issued, ordinary practice would not require any confidentiality or suppression around an individual matter?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:22): I thank the honourable member for her question. I don't think there's a blanket answer to that, particularly where something might identify someone who has been the victim of a particular crime, or where it would tend to identify a victim of another matter. There are often very good public policy reasons that names aren't released as it might cause further distress. But, as I said, there are abilities in most of our courts and tribunals for confidentiality and suppression orders to be made. In addition to that, there are conventions that often apply into the reporting of some things in our judicial system.