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Public Trustee

Ms BEDFORD (Florey) (14:58): Supplementary: can the Attorney elaborate whether this loss of income for the Public Trustee will have any impact on the Public Trustee itself?

The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General) (14:58): There is an income over a period of years that could be lost, that is, in the sense of revenue from estates. But what we discovered when we looked at this issue was that, although there is revenue from some of the estates, a significant number, I think close to half of the wills that are prepared, are ultimately not followed through; that is, the party has changed their will somewhere else, or has moved interstate, or has a circumstance where they have remarried and the will becomes no longer valid—those sorts of circumstances. So what might have been seen to be a significant financial income stream for the Public Trustee actually hasn't necessarily translated to that.

We felt that it was very important as one of the initiatives in this area and, secondly, that we look to ensure that our 700 clients who are currently serviced by the Public Advocate also have proximate access to the Public Trustee. We have about 700 persons in South Australia who are clients of both, and so there are other initiatives in train for them. There is some restructuring and coordination that we think will better serve, without any intended reduction in staff or anything of that nature, to restructure those services for the most vulnerable, who need those services the most.

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