House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2016-03-09 Daily Xml

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Child Protection

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:11): Supplementary: does the Attorney-General concede that there is confusion about the responsibilities in this house for child protection between the Minister for Education and Child Development and in fact his own portfolio of child protection reform?

The SPEAKER: I don't see how that question arises out of the previous answer.

Mr MARSHALL: Of course it does. We don't even know who is going to answer it and then, when they do answer it, they don't even say anything, because they don't know who the minister responsible for the culture is.

The SPEAKER: There wasn't a great foundation on which to build. Still, the Deputy Premier.

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for Consumer and Business Services, Minister for the City of Adelaide) (14:13): I have reflected on the question that I have just been asked by the Leader of the Opposition and I think the answer is: no, there is no confusion.