Second reading

I rise to speak on the Statutes Amendment and Repeal (Budget Measures) Bill 2018 and commend the bill to the house. I would like to acknowledge the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure and his contribution in respect of the Kangaroo Island commissioner and the work she has done.

Second Reading

Adjourned debate on second reading.

(Continued from 2 August 2018.)

I wish to thank members for their contributions to this debate, in particular the members for Heysen and Kavel, and the member for Kaurna on behalf of the opposition. He presented an indication of their view on this matter, although I was not entirely sure whether or not they intend to formally oppose the bill.

Second Reading

Adjourned debate on second reading (resumed on motion).

It is in these circumstances where there is no supervision or trained responsible persons to intervene, unlike the hotel and club industry. Put simply, you can lose your house while gaming from your lounge room. A number of reviews have been undertaken in this space. In September 2015, the commonwealth's Barry O'Farrell review found that online gambling is the fastest growing gambling segment, growing at 15 per cent per annum with over $1.4 billion gambled online each year.

Laws aimed at helping South Australians who were sexually or physically abused as children access compensation have passed State Parliament.

Motion

I rise to support the motion and commend the minister for bringing the matter to the attention of the house. May I first say that, in the work that our police do in respect of the personal protection of our community, their investigative role in relation to crime and the very challenging aspects of the security of our state in relation to terrorist activity and the like, at whatever level, these men and women place themselves at risk, particularly on the front line in relation to high-level squads that are important to the protection of our community.

Grievance Debate

On 31 August of this year, an article was published in The Advertiser regarding the prevalence of dowries—these are payments usually made by a bride's family in contemplation of marriage—and the inherent risks they pose, particularly to migrant women. Currently, the Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs is undertaking an inquiry into dowry abuse. The Legal Services Commission of South Australia, among others, presented a submission outlining the rising number of requests for legal assistance from women from countries where dowries have been traditionally practised. The committee is due to hand down their report on 6 December.

Ministerial Statement

Yesterday, a jury of the South Australian Supreme Court found Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif guilty of membership of a terrorist organisation, namely Islamic State. Ms Abdirahman-Khalif is a 23-year-old student who has been prosecuted by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions under a commonwealth terrorism offence. The student is the first terror suspect to be charged and held in South Australia. The Commonwealth DPP has alleged that Ms Khalif was a member of a terrorist organisation between 2016 and 2017, a charge which she pleaded not guilty to.

Ministerial Statement

I was concerned to read an article in The Australian newspaper of 31 August 2018 about a South Australian resident who lost the whole of her core funding under the National Disability Insurance Scheme to a fraud involving a trader from Western Australia. People with a disability rely on their funding arrangements under the NDIS to obtain essential support and services, and to hear that shonky operators are seeking to take advantage of people in that situation is quite disturbing.

Second Reading

I am very proud today to rise and support the state budget of 2018-19, the very first budget of the Marshall Liberal government. Elected after 16 years of Labor's financial mismanagement, our government must now act to clean up Labor's mess. South Australians understand the financial state of affairs that was left to us, and they know that together all of us must put our shoulders to the wheel and return the budget to a sustainable position.

Second Reading

(Continued from 20 June 2018.)

I rise to speak on the Royal Commissions (Extraterritorial Application) Amendment Bill 2018. The government will not be supporting the bill. This is a bill presented by the opposition seeking to insert a new section 3A into the Royal Commissions Act 1917 to state:

This Act applies outside South Australia to the full extent of the extraterritorial legislative power of the Parliament.