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House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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Question Time

Children and Young People (Oversight and Advocacy Bodies) Act

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:14): My question is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Has the minister received any request from the Children's Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission to explain why the South Australian government has suspended section 5 of the Children and Young People (Oversight and Advocacy Bodies) Act 2016, which requires the state to protect, respect and seek to give the rights outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:14): I'm not sure if I have received any correspondence from the person holding that position, but if the question is about why some of the powers of our children and young people's commissioner have not yet come into effect, that is because the commissioner asked for those powers to not yet come into effect in order to enable her to spend a period of time going out and consulting with young people and with children about how her office should organise itself and how she should conduct herself. She is nearing the end of that process.

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