Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I have one final question in relation to this. Senator Farrell would well now, as a fellow South Australian, of the work of the Mullighan commission of inquiry into institutional abuse—into child abuse; something established by the former Rann government when now Premier Weatherill was the relevant minister. I think almost all South Australians would agree that that was a very worthy and good exercise by the late Ted Mullighan QC. My question is this: insofar as there have been other inquiries at a state level—and I note there is currently an inquiry or there has been a commission of inquiry through the New South Wales government in relation to allegations of abuse in a particular region of New South Wales— or even if it is at federal level, to what extent can the findings or the evidence or statements taken form a part of this inquiry, or will this particular commission start from the beginning and make its own inquiries? In other words, what capacity is there to take statements or findings from the Mullighan commission of inquiry, for instance, or other state commissions of inquiry in other states, in relation to this inquiry?