House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2013-10-17 Daily Xml

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CHILD PROTECTION

Mr PISONI (Unley) (14:27): My question is for the Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills. When the member for Hartley was education minister did she authorise a payment of $30,000 to the student wrongly accused of accessing pornography at a regional school?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (14:28): The advice I have received from the department since a question was asked yesterday about ability to authorise payments such as this is that the delegated authority with the CE is such that it would not have required any ministerial authorisation, and it appears that there has been no reference whatsoever to the minister at the time.