House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
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Justice Reform

Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (14:29): A final supplementary, sir.

The SPEAKER: Member for Morialta, you said the last one was a final one.

Mr GARDNER: Well, I am saying it again now, sir. The minister introduced a lot of new information in that answer. The minister is now saying that there are these vast categories of prisoners in our prison system who don't deserve to be there. Where has the minister been for the last three elections?

The SPEAKER: I am very inclined to suspend the member for Morialta from the service of the house for using a supplementary question to make a speech and not even cast it in an interrogatory form.

An honourable member: 'Where has he been'?

The SPEAKER: 'Where has the minister been for the last however many years?' That's a question, is it?

Mr Gardner interjecting:

The SPEAKER: I call the member for Morialta to order, and I warn him for the first time.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Point of order: I appreciate—

The SPEAKER: The minister wants to tell us where he's been!

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I have been right here; well, not specifically right here, but—

The SPEAKER: I want the answer to be strictly to the terms of the question: where has the minister been?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Industrial Relations) (14:30): I'm objecting to the use of the word 'vast'. In the question was 'vast numbers of prisoners'. I object; I am being verballed there. Otherwise, the answer is, I have been in this building.

The SPEAKER: The member for Reynell.