❓ Ms Walker questions the Attorney General's decision to spend $500,000 to overturn a criminal injury compensation payment, highlighting the use of convicted criminals as key witnesses. The Attorney General denies the cost and accuses Ms Walker of fabricating the figure.
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CRIMINAL INJURY COMPENSATION PAYMENT
I refer to the decision by the Attorney General to spend $500 000 of the state’s money trying to overturn a $72 500 criminal injury compensation payment awarded to a 23-year-old man who, while on remand at Casuarina Prison, was placed in a unit with murderers and sexual predators. Is it true that the state’s case has been mounted mainly on the evidence of star witnesses David Birnie, a serial murderer and rapist, now deceased; a notorious paedophile named Barrett serving a life sentence; and a brutal child murderer? Mr J.A. McGINTY
I refer to the decision by the Attorney General to spend $500 000 of the state’s money trying to overturn a $72 500 criminal injury compensation payment awarded to a 23-year-old man who, while on remand at Casuarina Prison, was placed in a unit with murderers and sexual predators. Is it true that the state’s case has been mounted mainly on the evidence of star witnesses David Birnie, a serial murderer and rapist, now deceased; a notorious paedophile named Barrett serving a life sentence; and a brutal child murderer? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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The member for Nedlands seems to have had a flight of fantasy. I thought I had informed her yesterday that there was no additional cost. She now seems to have copped the disease that some other people around here have - of inflating things with no foundation. The member for Nedlands has simply made up the half-million-dollar figure, which has no foundation in fact, so the premise on which the question is based is false. The answer to the question is that I do not know.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: The member for Nedlands seems to have had a flight of fantasy. I thought I had informed her yesterday that there was no additional cost. She now seems to have copped the disease that some other people around here have - of inflating things with no foundation. The member for Nedlands has simply made up the half-million-dollar figure, which has no foundation in fact, so the premise on which the question is based is false. The answer to the question is that I do not know.
The member for Nedlands seems to have had a flight of fantasy. I thought I had informed her yesterday that there was no additional cost. She now seems to have copped the disease that some other people around here have - of inflating things with no foundation. The member for Nedlands has simply made up the half-million-dollar figure, which has no foundation in fact, so the premise on which the question is based is false. The answer to the question is that I do not know.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: The member for Nedlands seems to have had a flight of fantasy. I thought I had informed her yesterday that there was no additional cost. She now seems to have copped the disease that some other people around here have - of inflating things with no foundation. The member for Nedlands has simply made up the half-million-dollar figure, which has no foundation in fact, so the premise on which the question is based is false. The answer to the question is that I do not know.
The member for Nedlands seems to have had a flight of fantasy. I thought I had informed her yesterday that there was no additional cost. She now seems to have copped the disease that some other people around here have - of inflating things with no foundation. The member for Nedlands has simply made up the half-million-dollar figure, which has no foundation in fact, so the premise on which the question is based is false. The answer to the question is that I do not know.
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