Page 1020 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 21 March 2012
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Minister, can you clarify on what date the police investigation was started and on what date it was completed?
DR BOURKE: I thank the member for his question. I am advised that the investigation was started on the day, because that is when the police were informed of the incident. As to police procedure, you will need to question the police minister.
MR SPEAKER: A supplementary, Mr Doszpot.
MR DOSZPOT: Minister, I have been given a report. How can you reconcile your statement on radio with the briefing given to me by your department that claimed the investigation was finished long before 7 March? If I have been given this report, why haven’t you?
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the floor and he has been asked a question.
DR BOURKE: I thank the member for his question. I think some confusion exists in the mind of the member. He is confusing the investigation by the directorate, by the school, with the police investigation.
MR HARGREAVES: Supplementary.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: In relation to the incident, minister, was the same briefing given to those opposite as was given to the Greens?
DR BOURKE: I thank the member for his question. Indeed, it was. Both the Greens and Mr Doszpot were extensively briefed on this matter. They know the detailed circumstances of this matter, they know that there is more than one side to this story, and they know the confidential nature of these matters, involving children and families who do not wish to have their details paraded in the public arena, who do not wish—
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Mr Coe, I have just asked for order.
DR BOURKE: People who do not wish to have their personal details paraded in the public arena, who are being cared for appropriately by our professional staff in our schools.
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