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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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LIV Golf

Ms PRATT (Frome) (15:03): My question is to the Minister for Women and Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing. Will the minister attend LIV Golf and, if so, will she do so as the Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing or as the Minister for Women? With your leave, and that of the house, sir, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Ms PRATT: It has been reported that LIV Golf has been criticised for attempting to sportswash Saudi Arabia's human rights record. On 5 January this year, the UN Committee against Torture listed a range of serious concerns with Saudi Arabia's human rights record, including the 'involuntary sterilization of women with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities', the legal status of 'violence against women, including rape, marital rape and forced marriage'.

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD (Reynell—Minister for Child Protection, Minister for Women and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (15:03): I thank the member for her question. I was hoping that there would be a further question first of all, before I get to that one, about the gender pay gap—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: —because I just wanted to say here—

Mr Pederick interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Hammond!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: —in this house that we take decisive action in relation to issues that impact women.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: The reason that we take decisive action on issues that impact women is because we have—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Minister—

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: —diversity in our decision-making body. We have women in our party—

Mr TARZIA: Point of order, sir.

The SPEAKER: Minister, please be seated. There is a point of order.

Mr TARZIA: Standing order 98, sir. This is completely out of order debate and ridiculous.

The SPEAKER: Order! The rhetorical flourish is unhelpful. I have the standing order. There is some merit in the point of order put to me. Minister, question time is close to expiring. We have the standing order in hand. We will turn to you. Minister.

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: Thank you, Mr Speaker. It is interesting that those opposite refer to a discussion about diversity in decision-making as ridiculous. The reason that we are focused on a range of women's issues is because we have women in our parliamentary ranks, and the reason that we have a majority of women—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: —in our parliamentary ranks—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call.

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: The reason we have a majority of women in our parliamentary ranks is because we believe that there are roughly equal numbers of meritorious women and men, and so when there wasn't that reflection—

Mr Tarzia interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Hartley!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: —of equality in our parliamentary ranks we took real action to change that, and look what happened.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: We have all of these women here of merit—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Newland! Member for Frome!

Mrs Hurn interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Schubert!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: But to come back to this question, I have responded to a very similar question about Liv Golf previously.

Ms Pratt interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Frome!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: I think it was the shadow minister for sport, and I did answer fulsomely at that time and I can add to that answer today by saying I will certainly check my diary, although I probably don't need to—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: —because what these over there spend their time doing, rather than talking about domestic violence, rather than talking about child protection, is actually just FOI-ing my diary—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD: —so maybe one of the shadow ministers can let you know when it appears in my diary.

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