House Chair, to the Minister, is the department aware of allegations of racism by the president of Netball SA against white players? If so, is there an investigation and by when can we expect an outcome? Thank you.
The MINISTER OF SPORTS, ARTS AND CULTURE: Hon members, let us put context into what we are doing. We are dealing at a macro level here with a pernicious ideology called racism. So, for us to address that we cannot pick and choose incidences; we must deal with this ideology in a broad way.
You are mentioning an example which I do not know about, but there are many other examples. So, what becomes important is that all of us as society follow the conference in 2000 against all intolerances, not only racism, but sexism and xenophobia. All of those intolerances will have to be fought in our society for us ... and tribalism, you can name them ... to be moving forward as a society.
What is not going to help us is to pick one here and another there. Let us deal with the system because this thing is systemic so let us deal with it that way. Thank you very much. [Applause.]