Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2021-03-17 Daily Xml

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Review of Harassment in the South Australian Parliament Workplace

The Hon. C. BONAROS (14:40): Supplementary: so we can better understand, given that we are now to have a committee established to consider the implementation of the commission's recommendations, can you give us an indication of whether the inquiry you instigated will be paused or extended to cover those aspects of the report that specifically relate to standing orders?

The PRESIDENT (14:40): I thank the member for her supplementary. I will remind the honourable member that she did ask me in her previous question whether it was my intention to pause the proceedings of the Standing Orders Committee and that is not my intention. There is a motion that will be considered by this chamber at some stage relating to a joint select committee, but that is a determination for this chamber and that has not been done as yet.

There are also things that the Speaker and myself, with the two Clerks, have discussed about further ways forward to progress these issues where we specifically deal with the matters relating to the staff of the parliament, the staff employed by the parliament, rather than the staff employed by other agencies, the people employed by the Premier, the people employed by all the other departments that have people in this building, and indeed other organisations that have representatives in this building, particularly on sitting days.