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Mr PISONI (Unley) (14:40): My question is for the Minister for Education and Child Development. How many student and contract teachers have been advised in writing that they are shortlisted for a permanent teaching position within a government school, only to be told the next day it was a mistake and that they have not been shortlisted? The opposition has been advised that student and contract teachers have been receiving emails that read, and I quote:

You have been shortlisted for the position...We recommend that you advise your referees and that the panel will be contacting them.

The following day the applicant receives another email advising them that the first email was sent in error and they were not shortlisted.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. G. PORTOLESI (Hartley—Minister for Education and Child Development) (14:41): I do thank the member for this question. I am familiar with the material in the question because I believe the member for Unley wrote to me about this matter. Did you receive a letter from me?

Mr Pisoni: I didn't write to you about this.

The Hon. G. PORTOLESI: I am certain I received a briefing about this matter. I do not seek to speak about the specifics of this particular situation. I think that is unfair to the officer in question.

Mr PISONI: Point of order: the minister says that I wrote to her about this issue; I didn't write to her about this issue.

The SPEAKER: That's not a point of order, member for Unley.

Mr PISONI: And this is widespread; it is not one person.

The SPEAKER: Order! She said she thought you had. That was not a point of order. You can do a personal explanation afterwards if you feel you need to. Minister.

The Hon. G. PORTOLESI: Thank you, Madam Speaker. Actually, I think the document to which I am referring—I saw it late one night in my bag—is, in fact, a document that the member for Unley had written to an officer in my department, and it may be a briefing that I am referring to. In any case—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. G. PORTOLESI: —I am familiar with the matter to which he refers and there is a perfectly rational explanation for it.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr PISONI: Can we please have the explanation, minister? If it is so simple, can we have it?

The SPEAKER: Order! As I don't have the same knowledge that the minister does, I am not going to ask her to respond—if she's answered in the manner she chooses.

Mr PISONI: Can I ask a supplementary question, if I may?

The SPEAKER: A minister can answer a question in any way that they choose. We may completely embarrass someone.

Mr PISONI: May I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker?

The SPEAKER: Supplementary.

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