❓ Mr. Johnson questions the Attorney General about WA's high acquittal rate for serious offences compared to other states, suggesting it undermines the government's 'tough on crime' stance. The Attorney General defends the government's record by highlighting increased funding for the DPP and tougher penalties.
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ACQUITTAL RATE FOR SERIOUS OFFENCES
I ask the Attorney General to look at this chart of quite deplorable statistics that I am holding. They show the acquittal rate for serious criminal offences across the nation. Western Australia has the unenviable record of leading the nation with its acquittal rate. I also ask the Attorney General to look at Western Australia’s acquittal rate over time, which shows that it has risen to a dreadful level at the moment. I ask the Attorney General to consider those facts when he responds to the question. The Attorney General’s government likes to talk tough on crime. (1) Will the Attorney General please explain to the people of Western Australia why it is that the acquittal rate in Western Australia’s courts for serious criminal offences is so far above the rest of the nation at 16.5 per cent, compared with 8.4 per cent in New South Wales and 4.7 per cent in Queensland? (2) Will the Attorney General concede that this is further evidence that his tough talk on crime is just that - talk? Mr J.A. McGINTY
I ask the Attorney General to look at this chart of quite deplorable statistics that I am holding. They show the acquittal rate for serious criminal offences across the nation. Western Australia has the unenviable record of leading the nation with its acquittal rate. I also ask the Attorney General to look at Western Australia’s acquittal rate over time, which shows that it has risen to a dreadful level at the moment. I ask the Attorney General to consider those facts when he responds to the question. The Attorney General’s government likes to talk tough on crime. (1) Will the Attorney General please explain to the people of Western Australia why it is that the acquittal rate in Western Australia’s courts for serious criminal offences is so far above the rest of the nation at 16.5 per cent, compared with 8.4 per cent in New South Wales and 4.7 per cent in Queensland? (2) Will the Attorney General concede that this is further evidence that his tough talk on crime is just that - talk? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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(1)-(2) As members will know, over the past six and a half years extensive legislation has been introduced into this place to make sure that criminals are dealt with as they should be - that is, severely. We have increased penalties. We have even overcome the opposition’s resistance when we wanted to introduce a circumstance of aggravation; that is, where an assault was committed against a senior citizen. Opposition members stood and opposed it. Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
(1) Will the Attorney General please explain to the people of Western Australia why it is that the acquittal rate in Western Australia’s courts for serious criminal offences is so far above the rest of the nation at 16.5 per cent, compared with 8.4 per cent in New South Wales and 4.7 per cent in Queensland? (2) Will the Attorney General concede that this is further evidence that his tough talk on crime is just that - talk? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(2) As members will know, over the past six and a half years extensive legislation has been introduced into this place to make sure that criminals are dealt with as they should be - that is, severely. We have increased penalties. We have even overcome the opposition’s resistance when we wanted to introduce a circumstance of aggravation; that is, where an assault was committed against a senior citizen. Opposition members stood and opposed it. Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
(2) Will the Attorney General concede that this is further evidence that his tough talk on crime is just that - talk? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(2) As members will know, over the past six and a half years extensive legislation has been introduced into this place to make sure that criminals are dealt with as they should be - that is, severely. We have increased penalties. We have even overcome the opposition’s resistance when we wanted to introduce a circumstance of aggravation; that is, where an assault was committed against a senior citizen. Opposition members stood and opposed it. Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(2) As members will know, over the past six and a half years extensive legislation has been introduced into this place to make sure that criminals are dealt with as they should be - that is, severely. We have increased penalties. We have even overcome the opposition’s resistance when we wanted to introduce a circumstance of aggravation; that is, where an assault was committed against a senior citizen. Opposition members stood and opposed it. Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
(1)-(2) As members will know, over the past six and a half years extensive legislation has been introduced into this place to make sure that criminals are dealt with as they should be - that is, severely. We have increased penalties. We have even overcome the opposition’s resistance when we wanted to introduce a circumstance of aggravation; that is, where an assault was committed against a senior citizen. Opposition members stood and opposed it. Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
(1) Will the Attorney General please explain to the people of Western Australia why it is that the acquittal rate in Western Australia’s courts for serious criminal offences is so far above the rest of the nation at 16.5 per cent, compared with 8.4 per cent in New South Wales and 4.7 per cent in Queensland? (2) Will the Attorney General concede that this is further evidence that his tough talk on crime is just that - talk? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(2) As members will know, over the past six and a half years extensive legislation has been introduced into this place to make sure that criminals are dealt with as they should be - that is, severely. We have increased penalties. We have even overcome the opposition’s resistance when we wanted to introduce a circumstance of aggravation; that is, where an assault was committed against a senior citizen. Opposition members stood and opposed it. Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
(2) Will the Attorney General concede that this is further evidence that his tough talk on crime is just that - talk? Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(2) As members will know, over the past six and a half years extensive legislation has been introduced into this place to make sure that criminals are dealt with as they should be - that is, severely. We have increased penalties. We have even overcome the opposition’s resistance when we wanted to introduce a circumstance of aggravation; that is, where an assault was committed against a senior citizen. Opposition members stood and opposed it. Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: (1)-(2) As members will know, over the past six and a half years extensive legislation has been introduced into this place to make sure that criminals are dealt with as they should be - that is, severely. We have increased penalties. We have even overcome the opposition’s resistance when we wanted to introduce a circumstance of aggravation; that is, where an assault was committed against a senior citizen. Opposition members stood and opposed it. Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
(1)-(2) As members will know, over the past six and a half years extensive legislation has been introduced into this place to make sure that criminals are dealt with as they should be - that is, severely. We have increased penalties. We have even overcome the opposition’s resistance when we wanted to introduce a circumstance of aggravation; that is, where an assault was committed against a senior citizen. Opposition members stood and opposed it. Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr R.F. Johnson : Why didn’t you resource the DPP? Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Let me tell the member for Hillarys about the Director of Public Prosecutions. To back up that very important work, and to make sure that our legislation had tough penalties to deal with people who committed serious crime, we provided - three years ago, if my memory serves me correctly - a very significant boost in funds. It was in the order - again, if my memory serves me correctly, and I have had no notice of this question - of 25 or 30 per cent. Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker : That is because I made you. Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : The member for Nedlands makes me do a lot of things. We appreciated that in the fight against crime in this state we needed to provide a significant injection of additional funding into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The member for Nedlands said that we should do it, so we did it! Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : That very significant injection of funding enabled the DPP to employ dozens more prosecutors to prosecute offenders in this state. Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker : You let it run down first. Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : So the member says. Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker : Come on! You did. Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : We injected that funding a number of years ago to enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to do its job properly. Most recently we have provided additional funding. For the benefit of the member for Hillarys, that was only a few weeks ago. We identified that we could do even better when it came to confiscating the property from of criminals in this state. We have made provision for the police to employ additional forensic accountants to trace the ill-gotten gains of serious criminals in this state. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order, member for Nedlands! Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Excuse me for not knowing the exact figure off the top of my head, but we have provided in the order of an additional $800 000 a year for the DPP, specifically for the confiscations unit, to enable it to increase its effort to confiscate the property of serious criminals in this state. We have injected the money. There are more prosecutors in the DPP’s office. We have given more money to both the police and the DPP to enable them to confiscate property. We have backed that up with serious changes to the law in this state - some of which changes are still before this Parliament - to increase penalties, for instance, for people who commit serious assaults or any sort of assault against public officers. We have significantly increased the penalties because we will not stand by and see our police, nurses and ambulance officers assaulted by some members of the community. We will throw the book at them. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : As much as the Attorney General and some members in this chamber found the member for Nedlands’ first attempt at an interjection amusing, the following interjections were not, particularly after I warned her. She will please desist. If she does not, she will find herself called to order, as she is for the first time this time.
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