❓ Question regarding the significance of a new public transport CCTV monitoring facility and trends in security on Perth buses. The Minister responds by highlighting the facility's capabilities and a slight decrease in incidents, while also criticizing the Leader of the Opposition's claims about public transport security.
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PUBLIC TRANSPORT — SECURITY
Can the minister please advise the house of the significance of the new $7.4 million public transport closed-circuit television central monitoring facility opened this morning, and also outline the trends on security on Perth buses? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
Can the minister please advise the house of the significance of the new $7.4 million public transport closed-circuit television central monitoring facility opened this morning, and also outline the trends on security on Perth buses? Mr T.R. BUSWELL
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I thank the member for the question. It was a wonderful morning down at the Public Transport Authority control room and I congratulate the team from the PTA for putting this $7.4 million—what do you call it? Mr C.J. Barnett : You’re the minister! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the member for the question. It was a wonderful morning down at the Public Transport Authority control room and I congratulate the team from the PTA for putting this $7.4 million—what do you call it? Mr C.J. Barnett : You’re the minister! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
I thank the member for the question. It was a wonderful morning down at the Public Transport Authority control room and I congratulate the team from the PTA for putting this $7.4 million—what do you call it? Mr C.J. Barnett : You’re the minister! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
It was a wonderful morning down at the Public Transport Authority control room and I congratulate the team from the PTA for putting this $7.4 million—what do you call it? Mr C.J. Barnett : You’re the minister! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr C.J. Barnett : You’re the minister! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL replied: I thank the member for the question. It was a wonderful morning down at the Public Transport Authority control room and I congratulate the team from the PTA for putting this $7.4 million—what do you call it? Mr C.J. Barnett : You’re the minister! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
I thank the member for the question. It was a wonderful morning down at the Public Transport Authority control room and I congratulate the team from the PTA for putting this $7.4 million—what do you call it? Mr C.J. Barnett : You’re the minister! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
It was a wonderful morning down at the Public Transport Authority control room and I congratulate the team from the PTA for putting this $7.4 million—what do you call it? Mr C.J. Barnett : You’re the minister! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr C.J. Barnett : You’re the minister! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Yes, I know. Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Several members interjected. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : The $7.4 million CCTV control room is fantastic. There is a massive wall that has 64 — Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Can you see yourself? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I saw you, Leader of the Opposition, at Morley bus station, and I will talk about that in a second. The control room keeps horrible, shocking events on hard disc, and the Leader of the Opposition is there! The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
The wall is almost as big as the wall across from us in this place. It has 64 monitors with capacity for 20 operators linked into 1 326 fixed CCTV sites around the metropolitan area, covering train stations, bus stations, car parks and other pieces of fixed infrastructure. It is a world-class facility that provides our police and PTA security personnel with a real-time interface with what is happening in train stations and bus stations. It is fantastic. It enables the operators to contact the police or the PTA guards to attend incidents that are noted. I spoke to one of the operators there. They relayed a story to me about an attack with a tomahawk on the Armadale line where the operator was able to intervene through the loudspeaker system — Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr A.J. Waddell : Ooh! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Do members know what happened? The person with the tomahawk, who was attacking another person, got up and took off. Members may think that does not mean much. I suspect that if you are being attacked by somebody with a tomahawk and if they stop attacking you and run for it, it is a pretty good outcome, member for Forrestfield; I do not know. Maybe the member for Forrestfield disagrees; I do not know. The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
The government is committed to improving security on the public transport system. On top of this facility, there are now 4 750 cameras covering 80 per cent of our bus fleet and 703 cameras across the 234 rail carriages in the network. In the last few years we have employed an extra 30 full-time equivalent staff members to improve bus security. All buses are now fitted with duress alarms. The vast majority of buses are fitted with driver security screens. The result of this is that last year, in 2010–11, there was a decrease in the number of incidents on our public transport network in the metropolitan area; a drop from 6 574 to 6 350. That is a modest drop—3.5 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s insignificant! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I tell you what, Leader of the Opposition: at a time of increasing patronage, it is actually a very strong step in the right direction. The statistics show that the government’s investment in public transport security is starting to pay dividends. We will talk about statistics, because I am aware of the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to the Morley bus station last week. He rang Geoff Hutchison and told him how disgusted he was with the statistics he had gathered. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition said — Oh the figures have been obtained by my shadow minister for transport, Ken — “Goldfinger” — Travers; … Point of Order Mr M. McGOWAN : Mr Speaker, you already ruled before that the minister should not refer to members by other than their title, and he is continuing to defy your ruling. I ask that he comply with the standing orders. The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
The SPEAKER : Minister for Transport, please refer to the member in the other place by his correct title. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Thank you, Mr Speaker; my apologies for straying. According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
According to my notes, the Leader of the Opposition continued — I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions of FOI, but here are the figures and what they show is that the Government’s promises of improved security on public transport have simply not been delivered. So those were figures obtained by FOI or parliamentary questions, were they, Leader of the Opposition? Why did the Leader of the Opposition not ’fess up as to where he got that data from? Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Would you read that out again? Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : FOI or parliamentary questions. Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : No, what did I say? The full sentence. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : “I’m not sure exactly whether he’s used parliamentary questions” — Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Okay; “I’m not sure”—that’s what I said. Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : As I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that data would have flowed from Mr Starr from the Transport Workers Union. I suspect the Leader of the Opposition might have been a bit embarrassed to admit on the radio to his close links with unions like that. The fact that he danced around the truth is of interest. I do not mind if Mr Starr provides that information; that is entirely his choice. I am just interested that the Leader of the Opposition neglects to inform the public of that when he has discussions about the matter. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
The SPEAKER : Members! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : Let us move on. The Leader of the Opposition was out there at Morley; he had the incident stats — Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : It obviously stung you! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : You reckon? Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Well, here you are, a week later, doing a dorothy dixer on it! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : By my counting, this is the first time we have come back to Parliament since the Leader of the Opposition’s prophetic statements of last week. He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
He fronted up in Morley and said that it was an outrage. He said that last year, the number of incidents at the Morley station went up from 517 to 549. What he did not say was that the vast majority of them involved an increase in graffiti. Why? This was because the Department of Transport launched Operation Cleanskin, through which it encourages people to report graffiti offences. The other thing the Leader of the Opposition did not say was that if one goes back and looks at performance over two years, incidents reported at Morley have dropped by 25 per cent. He did not own up to the next page, which deals with Mirrabooka, and he did not report that over the last two years, incidents at Mirrabooka have decreased by 38 per cent. He did not flick over to the next page, which shows that over the last two years figures for the Busport have decreased by 50 per cent. Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr E.S. Ripper : I was in Morley! What do you expect me to say? I was talking about Morley figures! Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I suspect that when the Leader of the Opposition presented this information to the media, he took the graph at the back out, because it clearly shows that incidents have declined for the vast majority of bus stations over the last two years. This government is proud of our investment in security on our public transport network. The $7.4 million investment announced this morning is fantastic. It will bring world-class technology—the CCTV central monitoring facility—and it will help provide a world’s best practice security system to people on our trains. The Leader of the Opposition can go out and try to warp figures, but the fact of the matter is that the trend is good, the trend is down, and we are making the investments we have to to help keep passengers safe on our public transport network.
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