❓ The Minister for Police responds to concerns about community safety by criticising the previous government's record on crime, hooning offences, and graffiti, while outlining planned legislation and initiatives.
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COMMUNITY SAFETY
The deterioration of community safety is a primary concern for constituents in my electorate of Carine. What steps has the minister taken to make communities safer? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
The deterioration of community safety is a primary concern for constituents in my electorate of Carine. What steps has the minister taken to make communities safer? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
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I thank the member for Carine for his question. I would be delighted to inform the house of the steps I have taken as Minister for Police to try to make Western Australia a safer place, because we need to do that. We saw a huge increase in violent crime under the former government’s watch over the past seven and a half years. We have seen criminals who should have gone to jail and not go to jail because, quite frankly, the former government was soft on crime, soft on criminals and soft on drugs. Even now in opposition, the shadow minister is critical of the number of times our police officers use their Tasers, which were introduced under the former government’s watch. Now she is critical of the police for using them. The police were given the tools to use, and now she is critical of them using them. Why do the police use Tasers? It is because they come up against many violent thugs in our society who have proliferated under the previous government’s watch. Mrs M.H. Roberts : What are you doing? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We are doing a heck of a lot. What else happened under the previous government’s watch? We were told by the previous police minister that the previous government could not increase the penalty for first-time offences for hoons from 48 hours to seven days. Members of the opposition had to be dragged kicking and screaming before they admitted that that was not the case. They were misleading Parliament all the time. What did they do? They increased the penalty to seven days. We had to virtually bash them into that because they were not prepared to do it. How many cars have been confiscated under the previous government’s legislation? Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I thank the member for Carine for his question. I would be delighted to inform the house of the steps I have taken as Minister for Police to try to make Western Australia a safer place, because we need to do that. We saw a huge increase in violent crime under the former government’s watch over the past seven and a half years. We have seen criminals who should have gone to jail and not go to jail because, quite frankly, the former government was soft on crime, soft on criminals and soft on drugs. Even now in opposition, the shadow minister is critical of the number of times our police officers use their Tasers, which were introduced under the former government’s watch. Now she is critical of the police for using them. The police were given the tools to use, and now she is critical of them using them. Why do the police use Tasers? It is because they come up against many violent thugs in our society who have proliferated under the previous government’s watch. Mrs M.H. Roberts : What are you doing? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We are doing a heck of a lot. What else happened under the previous government’s watch? We were told by the previous police minister that the previous government could not increase the penalty for first-time offences for hoons from 48 hours to seven days. Members of the opposition had to be dragged kicking and screaming before they admitted that that was not the case. They were misleading Parliament all the time. What did they do? They increased the penalty to seven days. We had to virtually bash them into that because they were not prepared to do it. How many cars have been confiscated under the previous government’s legislation? Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
I thank the member for Carine for his question. I would be delighted to inform the house of the steps I have taken as Minister for Police to try to make Western Australia a safer place, because we need to do that. We saw a huge increase in violent crime under the former government’s watch over the past seven and a half years. We have seen criminals who should have gone to jail and not go to jail because, quite frankly, the former government was soft on crime, soft on criminals and soft on drugs. Even now in opposition, the shadow minister is critical of the number of times our police officers use their Tasers, which were introduced under the former government’s watch. Now she is critical of the police for using them. The police were given the tools to use, and now she is critical of them using them. Why do the police use Tasers? It is because they come up against many violent thugs in our society who have proliferated under the previous government’s watch. Mrs M.H. Roberts : What are you doing? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We are doing a heck of a lot. What else happened under the previous government’s watch? We were told by the previous police minister that the previous government could not increase the penalty for first-time offences for hoons from 48 hours to seven days. Members of the opposition had to be dragged kicking and screaming before they admitted that that was not the case. They were misleading Parliament all the time. What did they do? They increased the penalty to seven days. We had to virtually bash them into that because they were not prepared to do it. How many cars have been confiscated under the previous government’s legislation? Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : What are you doing? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We are doing a heck of a lot. What else happened under the previous government’s watch? We were told by the previous police minister that the previous government could not increase the penalty for first-time offences for hoons from 48 hours to seven days. Members of the opposition had to be dragged kicking and screaming before they admitted that that was not the case. They were misleading Parliament all the time. What did they do? They increased the penalty to seven days. We had to virtually bash them into that because they were not prepared to do it. How many cars have been confiscated under the previous government’s legislation? Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We are doing a heck of a lot. What else happened under the previous government’s watch? We were told by the previous police minister that the previous government could not increase the penalty for first-time offences for hoons from 48 hours to seven days. Members of the opposition had to be dragged kicking and screaming before they admitted that that was not the case. They were misleading Parliament all the time. What did they do? They increased the penalty to seven days. We had to virtually bash them into that because they were not prepared to do it. How many cars have been confiscated under the previous government’s legislation? Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I thank the member for Carine for his question. I would be delighted to inform the house of the steps I have taken as Minister for Police to try to make Western Australia a safer place, because we need to do that. We saw a huge increase in violent crime under the former government’s watch over the past seven and a half years. We have seen criminals who should have gone to jail and not go to jail because, quite frankly, the former government was soft on crime, soft on criminals and soft on drugs. Even now in opposition, the shadow minister is critical of the number of times our police officers use their Tasers, which were introduced under the former government’s watch. Now she is critical of the police for using them. The police were given the tools to use, and now she is critical of them using them. Why do the police use Tasers? It is because they come up against many violent thugs in our society who have proliferated under the previous government’s watch. Mrs M.H. Roberts : What are you doing? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We are doing a heck of a lot. What else happened under the previous government’s watch? We were told by the previous police minister that the previous government could not increase the penalty for first-time offences for hoons from 48 hours to seven days. Members of the opposition had to be dragged kicking and screaming before they admitted that that was not the case. They were misleading Parliament all the time. What did they do? They increased the penalty to seven days. We had to virtually bash them into that because they were not prepared to do it. How many cars have been confiscated under the previous government’s legislation? Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
I thank the member for Carine for his question. I would be delighted to inform the house of the steps I have taken as Minister for Police to try to make Western Australia a safer place, because we need to do that. We saw a huge increase in violent crime under the former government’s watch over the past seven and a half years. We have seen criminals who should have gone to jail and not go to jail because, quite frankly, the former government was soft on crime, soft on criminals and soft on drugs. Even now in opposition, the shadow minister is critical of the number of times our police officers use their Tasers, which were introduced under the former government’s watch. Now she is critical of the police for using them. The police were given the tools to use, and now she is critical of them using them. Why do the police use Tasers? It is because they come up against many violent thugs in our society who have proliferated under the previous government’s watch. Mrs M.H. Roberts : What are you doing? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We are doing a heck of a lot. What else happened under the previous government’s watch? We were told by the previous police minister that the previous government could not increase the penalty for first-time offences for hoons from 48 hours to seven days. Members of the opposition had to be dragged kicking and screaming before they admitted that that was not the case. They were misleading Parliament all the time. What did they do? They increased the penalty to seven days. We had to virtually bash them into that because they were not prepared to do it. How many cars have been confiscated under the previous government’s legislation? Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : What are you doing? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We are doing a heck of a lot. What else happened under the previous government’s watch? We were told by the previous police minister that the previous government could not increase the penalty for first-time offences for hoons from 48 hours to seven days. Members of the opposition had to be dragged kicking and screaming before they admitted that that was not the case. They were misleading Parliament all the time. What did they do? They increased the penalty to seven days. We had to virtually bash them into that because they were not prepared to do it. How many cars have been confiscated under the previous government’s legislation? Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We are doing a heck of a lot. What else happened under the previous government’s watch? We were told by the previous police minister that the previous government could not increase the penalty for first-time offences for hoons from 48 hours to seven days. Members of the opposition had to be dragged kicking and screaming before they admitted that that was not the case. They were misleading Parliament all the time. What did they do? They increased the penalty to seven days. We had to virtually bash them into that because they were not prepared to do it. How many cars have been confiscated under the previous government’s legislation? Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A big round figure. Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Where is your promise? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I am just about to tell the Leader of the Opposition. That is your promise, my friend. That is the opposition’s performance in law and order, in the fight against crime and in the fight against people who put other lives at risk on the roads. An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
An opposition member: Where are you? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Where are we? I will tell members where we are. As we speak, legislation is being drafted to deal with people who commit hooning offences. For a first offence, we will retain the number of days of confiscation at seven, and for a second offence it will be 90 days. Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : It’s too late to meet your promise. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will not be 28 days as it was in the former government’s legislation. For a third offence, there will be mandatory—that word those guys opposite do not like—confiscation, and those people will lose their vehicle and the funds will go into the road trauma trust fund. That is where those funds will go. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : What did members opposite do when they got into government last time? Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : We introduced the legislation. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Members opposite must take responsibility for all the graffiti in the community, because they are the ones who abandoned the graffiti task force. We will have that. Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr J.A. McGinty : Are you going to crush them? Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Certainly, some I will. Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : And then give it to the road trauma trust fund! Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : No; members opposite know that is not true. They are the ones who abolished the graffiti task force, which was very successful under the previous coalition government and graffiti has just spiralled out of proportion now; it is all over the place. I promise members opposite that within 100 days, there will be a graffiti task force. As we promised, we will deliver, and members opposite will see graffiti gradually start to disappear throughout the whole of Western Australia. Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr M.J. Cowper : It’ll take a long time, though. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : It will take a little while. It has grown so much under the previous government because it left us with such a legacy that it will take us a little while to clean it up. However, we will have the graffiti task force in place. Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Yesterday the Leader of the Opposition criticised me for not keeping the promise to reintroduce a regional crime squad. Is that what he said? Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr E.S. Ripper : Rural crime squad. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : A rural crime squad. That was one of the crosses against me. The 100 days is not up yet, but I said to him yesterday, “You watch this space.” I said to the Leader of the Opposition, “You watch this space, sunshine, because you will have egg on your face before the 100 days are up.” Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : I want to assure the member for Carine that he now has a government that is tough on law and order. Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Several members interjected. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : We will not be soft like members of the mob opposite. They go weak at the knees when they have to make a really serious decision on law and order. However, they should just watch what a good government can do.
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