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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
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POLICE INVESTIGATIONS

Mr PISONI (Unley) (15:05): My question is to the Minister for Police. Is it standard practice for an investigation into an assault to be suspended if the investigating officer goes on leave? Then police minister Wright wrote to the former member for Morialta, Lindsay Simmons, in reference to a serious school assault at Craigmore High School in February 2009 and explained away the failure of an officer to investigate the assault in a timely manner on the basis that 'the officer was commencing his annual leave'.

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY (Port Adelaide—Minister for Defence Industries, Minister for Police, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Motor Sport, Minister Assisting the Premier with the Olympic Dam Expansion Project) (15:06): I guess the member for Unley is somehow trying to entwine me in that question. I am not quite sure how, but operational—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr PISONI: Point of order. I will wait for the ruling of the chair.

The SPEAKER: Order! Sit down, minister. Point of order.

Mr PISONI: My point of order is the minister is imputing improper motives on me, and I ask it to be withdrawn.

The SPEAKER: I don't think he can withdraw when he says 'I assume'. He has not actually said straight out that you have done that, but I would ask the minister to be very careful about what he is saying. Minister, do you want to answer the question?

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: We are allowed to use propensity reasoning.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: I guess as a police minister I can see form in terms of what this gentleman gets up to.

Mr PISONI: Point of order.

The SPEAKER: Point of order, member for Unley.

Mr PISONI: The same point of order, Madam Speaker. I ask you to ask him to withdraw.

The SPEAKER: Member for Unley, I didn't hear what he said then because of the noise from your side. What was the second comment you are asking him to withdraw?

Mr PISONI: He was suggesting I had form in bad behaviour. That's what he was saying.

The SPEAKER: You had form in what?

Mr PISONI: In bad behaviour, through his inference, and I ask him to withdraw.

The SPEAKER: I think you are being very sensitive, member for Unley. If he'd only said you had form—

Mr PISONI: I'm being sensitive?

The SPEAKER: I think you were being very sensitive. I don't think you have a point of order there. Minister, can you just answer the question as it was asked and not make any assumptions or anything else.

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: You big sook!

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr PISONI: Point of order.

The SPEAKER: If that is about unparliamentary—

Mr PISONI: I don't believe that 'sook' is parliamentary.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr PISONI: I ask the minister to withdraw.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: Hey, sunshine, the day you can beat me in this place will be a very, very long day away. You are a political novice, and you are very, very poor at the art of parliamentary debate. But, Madam Speaker, I will be more than happy to get a report from the police commissioner.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

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