Legislative Council: Thursday, September 12, 2024

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Coroner's Court

The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON (14:23): Supplementary question: where there is no suppression order, no confidentiality order and there is no ongoing police investigation involved with the death, would it be ordinary practice for there to be any mandated secrecy around a death that is being investigated through the Coroner?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:23): I don't quite understand the question but I think every one of these matters is different in their circumstances. A death, particularly of a young person, is always a tragedy and each circumstance would be different, so to say that this is always allowed I think isn't something that any of us can say.