Page 5266 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 15 November 2011
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MS BURCH: I will refer to Mr Seselja: we actually have not breached an act. If he is going to mutter over the chamber then he should get his facts right.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order, members!
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the floor.
MS BURCH: If you would like another copy of the Solicitor-General’s report I am quite happy to send it to you.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Members, order! Stop the clocks, thank you. I cannot hear the minister and I expect to be able to hear the minister’s answer.
Mr Hanson: I have a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Are you taking one, Mr Hanson?
Mr Hanson: You made a comment about the opposition and the point I would like to make is that the minister directly engaged with the opposition in a conversation across the floor. I think that if you are going to have a chip at the opposition you should also point out to the minister that if she is going to do so she should expect some level of interjection from the opposition.
MR SPEAKER: Minister Burch, you have the floor.
MS BURCH: Thank you, Mr Speaker, and I will get back to Ms Le Couteur’s question. It was around strip searches and she made a comment about the opposite sex. The advice that I have, and everything that I have seen in front of me and in my conversations, is that the opposite sex are not part of that strip search, whether they are there as the person conducting the strip search or those observing or those on the CCTV.
MS BRESNAN: A supplementary.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Ms Bresnan.
MS BRESNAN: Minister, on what basis do you claim that no young person has ever been segregated in Bimberi? Why do you dispute the finding of the Human Rights Commission that the Coree holding cells are used for the behaviour management of young people? What documentation is kept of these decisions to place young people in Coree?
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