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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Review of Harassment in the South Australian Parliament Workplace

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:11): My question is, again, to the Premier. Is the Premier aware of any of the circumstances regarding the incident in which it is alleged a worker within parliament was subject to a sexual assault when a hand was placed up her skirt?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:12): No, and further to the Attorney's answer to the previous question can I just say, obviously, we received this report yesterday. The contents of this report were very concerning, and they should be very concerning to every single person in this parliament.

Of course, it was the government who supported the Equal Opportunity Commission to conduct this inquiry and to provide this parliament with this report, and we are very grateful to the acting equal opportunity commissioner, Emily Strickland, for preparing this report. My understanding is that resources were made available to make sure that this could occur.

I think we have raised standards in this parliament over a period of time, but what this report makes very, very clear is that there is still much more work to be done and we are committed to doing that work, particularly with regard to the question that the Leader of the Opposition asked in his previous question about referring matters to police.

Ultimately, this is a matter for the people who make the allegations. As the Attorney pointed out yesterday in the house, I think with great clarity, people should be supported in that in any way that they can, but ultimately this would be a matter for those people to take up with the police or any other body.

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