Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

You raise a very good point, particularly—because we're talking about small communities in many instances—about whether the person's actually talking as the community worker or whether they're just talking as a member of the community. I think we would seek to make sure here that if anybody—a community worker or a health worker—made a recommendation that somebody who had exited the card should no longer be exited, or somebody who wasn't on the card should be on the card, then that would probably trigger an investigation, but that in and of itself would not be sufficient for any action to be taken. If a health worker or a community worker made an application to the Department of Social Services to indicate that someone should be on the card that would trigger us checking but it would not in and of itself. They must only do that in their professional capacity. I understand your point about how you define between professional and non-professional, but it certainly would not be in and of itself sufficient to have the person put back on the card.