❓ A parliamentary question regarding the use of electronic tracking devices at Wooroloo Prison Farm after an escape, and the Minister's response focuses on criticising the previous government's handling of similar issues and defending the current system.
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I refer the minister to her media statement dated 18 May this year, which states - . . . inmates at minimum-security prisons around the State could be attached with electronic tracking devices to monitor their movements . . . . . . Mrs Roberts said the Government would conduct a major security trial at the Wooroloo minimum-security prison . . . (1) Given that the two prisoners who escaped on Wednesday night from Wooroloo Prison Farm were wearing what the minister claims were tracking devices, will she now inform the House where these prisoners are? (2) Can the minister confirm the comments on 6PR radio this morning of Cheryl Clay, the Acting General Manager of Public Prisons from the Department of Justice, that tracking devices are not even used in Western Australia? (3) Was the minister joking, or what did she mean, when she said in her press release - It also removes any temptation for prisoners thinking of tasting freedom before serving their full term. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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(1)-(3) I thank the member for Nedlands very much for raising this question, because it points out that the member for Nedlands and the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly do not support the use of these tracking devices. That is in direct conflict with their colleagues in the other place. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
. . . Mrs Roberts said the Government would conduct a major security trial at the Wooroloo minimum-security prison . . .
Mrs Roberts said the Government would conduct a major security trial at the Wooroloo minimum-security prison . . .
(2) Can the minister confirm the comments on 6PR radio this morning of Cheryl Clay, the Acting General Manager of Public Prisons from the Department of Justice, that tracking devices are not even used in Western Australia? (3) Was the minister joking, or what did she mean, when she said in her press release - It also removes any temptation for prisoners thinking of tasting freedom before serving their full term. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Nedlands very much for raising this question, because it points out that the member for Nedlands and the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly do not support the use of these tracking devices. That is in direct conflict with their colleagues in the other place. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
(3) Was the minister joking, or what did she mean, when she said in her press release - It also removes any temptation for prisoners thinking of tasting freedom before serving their full term. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Nedlands very much for raising this question, because it points out that the member for Nedlands and the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly do not support the use of these tracking devices. That is in direct conflict with their colleagues in the other place. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for Nedlands very much for raising this question, because it points out that the member for Nedlands and the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly do not support the use of these tracking devices. That is in direct conflict with their colleagues in the other place. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
. . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . .
Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . .
Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
. . . Mrs Roberts said the Government would conduct a major security trial at the Wooroloo minimum-security prison . . .
Mrs Roberts said the Government would conduct a major security trial at the Wooroloo minimum-security prison . . .
(2) Can the minister confirm the comments on 6PR radio this morning of Cheryl Clay, the Acting General Manager of Public Prisons from the Department of Justice, that tracking devices are not even used in Western Australia? (3) Was the minister joking, or what did she mean, when she said in her press release - It also removes any temptation for prisoners thinking of tasting freedom before serving their full term. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Nedlands very much for raising this question, because it points out that the member for Nedlands and the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly do not support the use of these tracking devices. That is in direct conflict with their colleagues in the other place. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
(3) Was the minister joking, or what did she mean, when she said in her press release - It also removes any temptation for prisoners thinking of tasting freedom before serving their full term. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) I thank the member for Nedlands very much for raising this question, because it points out that the member for Nedlands and the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly do not support the use of these tracking devices. That is in direct conflict with their colleagues in the other place. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
(1)-(3) I thank the member for Nedlands very much for raising this question, because it points out that the member for Nedlands and the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly do not support the use of these tracking devices. That is in direct conflict with their colleagues in the other place. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact of the matter is - Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mr C.J. Barnett: Have you tried animal-strap sandals? The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Has the Leader of the Opposition tried obeying the rules of this place? I call him to order for the third time, and the member for Warren-Blackwood for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members opposite do not support the use of these tracking devices and, frankly, they should have done a lot more, a lot sooner. The electronic tagging devices were originally introduced to replace the failed home detention program introduced by the former Government. They are tracking devices, and they track the prisoners within the prison. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Nedlands. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member can make a joke of it if she likes. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: These devices track prisoners within the prison. Wooroloo, for example, is divided into a number of zones and it is possible to detect where any of the prisoners are. This is a beat-up by the Opposition. It was said from the start that these devices would alert people the moment that offenders went beyond the boundaries. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the member for Nedlands. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I began by saying, these devices were originally planned to replace the failed home detention system of the former Government. One need only look back to 1999 to see the kind of mess there was. The former Government introduced a system of home detention, about which an article states - ONE of WA’s most notorious criminals allegedly committed 16 crimes, including five violent sexual assaults, while on home detention bail late last year. . . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . . I never said that these devices were a panacea; I said that they would stop the Department of Justice not knowing when people on home detention bail were out of bounds, or were out of bounds when a curfew was in place. The devices are working as planned. The Department of Justice was advised immediately this occurred. In the debacles in 1997, 1998 and 1999 offenders were missing for days and weeks, and were committing crimes, and the Department of Justice was not aware that they were not complying with their orders. Those days are long gone. Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
. . . Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . .
Police have charged him with four aggravated home burglaries, three counts of stealing with violence, one involving an indecent sexual assault, five counts of aggravated sexual penetration . . .
Members should consider how the former Government handled Wooroloo. An article in 1998 by Le Grand states - THE beleaguered prison system in Western Australia was further embarrassed yesterday when six inmates slipped undetected out of the minimum-security Wooroloo Prison east of Perth. They were undetected. The authorities did not even know the prisoners had escaped. The article further continues - The Justice Ministry’s acting executive director of offender management, Athol Jamieson, said that before their escape, the six were considered no risk to public safety. He said the prison farm was unfenced and worked on the “trust system”, where inmates were given the keys to their cells. They gave the inmates at Wooroloo prison the keys to their cells. What a joke! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: No, we do not. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order! I am sure that members want to hear the end of the minister’s question. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Nedlands to order for the third time. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order, member for Kalgoorlie. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The facts speak for themselves. During their last term in government in 2000-01 there were 62 - Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Mr Speaker, members opposite do not want to hear the history of their record in government. In 2000-01 there were 62 escapes from minimum security prisons, 20 of which were from Wooroloo. In 2004 there have been 16 escapes, and only two from Wooroloo. In that financial year compared with this financial year to date - admittedly a 12-month period compared with a five-month period - there were 62 escapes down to 16 escapes so far; and in 2000-01 there were 20 escapes from Wooroloo prison and this year so far only two. Under members opposite there were 55 escapes in a six-month period from Wooroloo Prison Farm and they say, “Don’t bother doing anything about it.” They did not even want to know when the prisoners had gone over the boundary.
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