❓ A parliamentary question regarding the impact of the government's imprisonment reduction strategy on offender management and parole breaches, following a review report into a specific tragedy. The Minister denies policy failings and accuses the questioner of misrepresenting the facts.
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I refer the minister to the review report of Mr Allan Skinner into the case management of high-risk offenders, tabled today. In particular I refer to Mr Skinner’s comment that - On July 2001 State Cabinet endorsed a “Strategy for Reducing the Rate and Cost of Imprisonment”. This strategy had obvious flow-on effects into Departmental policies. In the area of offender case management this was reflected in the Community Justice Services Practice Manual including the Breach Reduction Policy. (1) Does the minister concede that in spite of her selective terms of reference, these government directives have been cause for concern and confusion within her department? (2) Does the minister accept responsibility for this government policy directive, which led to a soft response on parole breaches and ultimately the tragedy that was the subject of the Skinner report? (3) Will the minister do what she should have done in the first place and require a full review of the Government’s policies with regard to offender management? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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(1)-(3) It is a shame that the member for Nedlands has chosen to shoot from the lip this afternoon rather than read the report and come to some understanding of what it contains. Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
(2) Does the minister accept responsibility for this government policy directive, which led to a soft response on parole breaches and ultimately the tragedy that was the subject of the Skinner report? (3) Will the minister do what she should have done in the first place and require a full review of the Government’s policies with regard to offender management? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) It is a shame that the member for Nedlands has chosen to shoot from the lip this afternoon rather than read the report and come to some understanding of what it contains. Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
(3) Will the minister do what she should have done in the first place and require a full review of the Government’s policies with regard to offender management? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) It is a shame that the member for Nedlands has chosen to shoot from the lip this afternoon rather than read the report and come to some understanding of what it contains. Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) It is a shame that the member for Nedlands has chosen to shoot from the lip this afternoon rather than read the report and come to some understanding of what it contains. Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
(1)-(3) It is a shame that the member for Nedlands has chosen to shoot from the lip this afternoon rather than read the report and come to some understanding of what it contains. Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
(2) Does the minister accept responsibility for this government policy directive, which led to a soft response on parole breaches and ultimately the tragedy that was the subject of the Skinner report? (3) Will the minister do what she should have done in the first place and require a full review of the Government’s policies with regard to offender management? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) It is a shame that the member for Nedlands has chosen to shoot from the lip this afternoon rather than read the report and come to some understanding of what it contains. Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
(3) Will the minister do what she should have done in the first place and require a full review of the Government’s policies with regard to offender management? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) It is a shame that the member for Nedlands has chosen to shoot from the lip this afternoon rather than read the report and come to some understanding of what it contains. Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(3) It is a shame that the member for Nedlands has chosen to shoot from the lip this afternoon rather than read the report and come to some understanding of what it contains. Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
(1)-(3) It is a shame that the member for Nedlands has chosen to shoot from the lip this afternoon rather than read the report and come to some understanding of what it contains. Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Ms S.E. Walker: It is what was not in it. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: This report makes it clear that the Government’s policy to reduce imprisonment has had no effect on what has occurred here. Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Ms S.E. Walker: Read page 9. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member tried to portray that previously and she was wrong, and she is wrong again. Members should look at her rubbish comments that are reported in the paper today in which she said that our policy is also responsible for home detention orders being out of control and that, because of our policy of letting more people out of prisons - Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
The SPEAKER: Member for Nedlands! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: - there would be more people on home detention. The member is about 100 per cent wrong. Fewer people are now on prison home detention than was the case two or three years ago. She is just plain wrong. Point of Order Dr J.M. WOOLLARD: The minister should be referring to “the member for Nedlands”, rather than “she”. The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Questions without Notice Resumed Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Members should ask themselves: who put the prison home detention legislation in place? It was the people opposite - the members of the Liberal Party. The member for Nedlands is out there criticising their legislation and policies, because she does not know. On top of that, our new sentencing legislation, which was proclaimed on 31 August this year, actually removes prison home detention. We removed what the Liberal Party put in place. The member for Nedlands never seems to let the facts get in the way of her stories. She shoots off; she has only one line when it comes to justice, which is: reducing imprisonment causes all the problems. If she reads this report she will see that reducing imprisonment has not been the cause of the problems. Today she asked silly questions about parole breaches. If she read the Skinner report she would know that the breach rate has been constant at around 35 per cent. I am disgusted at this pathetic and cheap point scoring. We took immediate and decisive action regarding this matter. A young girl lost her life and we take that very seriously. It was nothing to do with policy. This report indicates once and for all that it was nothing to do with government policy and everything to do with errors in both the Department of Justice and the Police Department. In fact, members opposite have done very little. I will not take the time to read out various aspects of my ministerial statement this morning, but we inherited a shambles from members opposite. We have acted decisively. There has been a 74 per cent increase in community justice officers. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
The SPEAKER: Members! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Fifty-five more officers are already in place and $2 million more is in that program. The report indicates that we have also moved decisively to implement the recommendations that flowed from the Auditor General’s review and the former report by Les Smith. We will implement these recommendations and any outstanding recommendations from those reports.
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