Ms ANDERSON - 2005-08-24
The Martin Labor government has demonstrated a strong commitment to addressing the causes of crime through innovative crime prevention initiatives. Could the minister please inform the House about funding available to community groups through the latest round of Crime Prevention Grants?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Macdonnell for her question. I am still getting a lot of pleasure seeing the new member for Macdonnell,; it is such a nice sight on our side of the House.
The Crime Prevention Grants Scheme is on for the next round. It opened on Monday, 15 August. $400 000 is provided to respond to the ideas of our regional crime prevention groups and community groups for crime prevention initiatives within their communities.
One of the great successes of our first term in government was, not only the very strong results we have in reducing crime, particularly property crime, which came down by 50%, and some early indications that we are making some inroads into crimes of violence, but the degree to which we have mobilised our communities, Territorians throughout the Northern Territory, to add in their ideas and their commitment to this campaign to reduce crime in our communities. The best way to do that is to facilitate groups who want to get together, locality by locality, community by community.
People know their own community better than anyone else. They can often come up with very targeted initiatives which will impact on areas of concern around a neighbourhood - , whether it be lack of lighting in the local park, or a laneway that is causing problems, say at Wagaman, or the things I heard from Tennant Creek, with an area where people commonly walk between their homes and the centre of town being across a bit of bushland and that was a crime-prone area.
It is that detailed knowledge of locality, detailed ideas about how to reduce the threat of crime-prone areas in those localities, and that is what Territorians are working with us now to extend the impact that we have had ofwith our crime prevention initiatives.
I welcome not only the continuation of this partnership but, far more practically, we are putting $400 000 out there to pick up your ideas andto ensure that they can be put into action. Applications close on 23 September. Please get them in wherever you live around the Northern Territory. We would love to hear from you. We will try andto cover as many of these great ideas that Territorians are contributing as possible within this partnership.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Macdonnell for her question. I am still getting a lot of pleasure seeing the new member for Macdonnell,; it is such a nice sight on our side of the House.
The Crime Prevention Grants Scheme is on for the next round. It opened on Monday, 15 August. $400 000 is provided to respond to the ideas of our regional crime prevention groups and community groups for crime prevention initiatives within their communities.
One of the great successes of our first term in government was, not only the very strong results we have in reducing crime, particularly property crime, which came down by 50%, and some early indications that we are making some inroads into crimes of violence, but the degree to which we have mobilised our communities, Territorians throughout the Northern Territory, to add in their ideas and their commitment to this campaign to reduce crime in our communities. The best way to do that is to facilitate groups who want to get together, locality by locality, community by community.
People know their own community better than anyone else. They can often come up with very targeted initiatives which will impact on areas of concern around a neighbourhood - , whether it be lack of lighting in the local park, or a laneway that is causing problems, say at Wagaman, or the things I heard from Tennant Creek, with an area where people commonly walk between their homes and the centre of town being across a bit of bushland and that was a crime-prone area.
It is that detailed knowledge of locality, detailed ideas about how to reduce the threat of crime-prone areas in those localities, and that is what Territorians are working with us now to extend the impact that we have had ofwith our crime prevention initiatives.
I welcome not only the continuation of this partnership but, far more practically, we are putting $400 000 out there to pick up your ideas andto ensure that they can be put into action. Applications close on 23 September. Please get them in wherever you live around the Northern Territory. We would love to hear from you. We will try andto cover as many of these great ideas that Territorians are contributing as possible within this partnership.
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016