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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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CHILD PROTECTION

Mr PISONI (Unley) (14:53): My question is to the Premier. Has the Premier asked if Kate Baldock had any discussions with Simon Blewett, Jadynne Harvey or any other government adviser or minister when she became aware, in February 2012, of the rape conviction of the western suburbs out of school hours care worker at the centre of the Debelle inquiry?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:53): The honourable member is again asking a very familiar question; it is a question that we have been hearing, in one form or another, for some months. The question is basically this: why is it that everybody on the opposition side is so disappointed about Mr Debelle? The answer to the question is that when they read Mr Debelle's report they discovered that he had examined Mr Blewett's record—

The Hon. I.F. EVANS: Point of order, Mr Speaker: I ask you to direct the minister back to the question. The minister has actually asked himself a question and is answering his own question. We want him to answer the member for Unley's question, which is the purpose of the opposition's question time.

The SPEAKER: I will listen carefully to see whether the Deputy Premier joins up his remarks to Kate Baldock at some stage.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Mr Speaker, I will not allow the question I asked myself to deflect me from answering the question asked by the member for Unley. The answer to the question is this—

The SPEAKER: Which question?

The Hon. J.R. RAU: The original question posed by me but I am harking back to the original question from the member for Unley, and the answer is this: Mr Debelle, who was clothed in the powers of a royal commissioner and who interviewed all of the people concerned and was able to compel witnesses and had the assistance of the forensic people in the police department, thoroughly explored all of these matters; and all of the answers to all of those questions, which were independently examined by the royal commissioner, are in the report.

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