Ms FINOCCHIARO - 2013-05-15
Territorians want to live in safe communities. Can you inform the House about how Budget 2013-14 will help create safe communities across the Northern Territory?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Drysdale for her question. I know she is very interested in safe communities in the Northern Territory, particularly in Palmerston and her electorate of Drysdale.
Under the former Labor government it was always a tough environment with community safety, but I can advise there has been a substantial increase in law and order, community safety and policing in the Northern Territory as part of this responsible budget, a budget of responsible action.
There is $22.5m for the extra 120 police …
Mr GUNNER: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, 113. All the money for extra police is coming from the Commonwealth.
Madam SPEAKER: That is not a point of order. Sit down!
Mr GILES: Madam Speaker, there was a misleading statement in that interjection. It is not true. There is $22.5m for the extra 120 police; an extra $2.1m for additional call centre support; $1.5m for the expansion of the Joint Emergency Services Communications Centre; $10.9m for a new police station in Alice Springs; $9.4m – I know the member for Namatjira is happy with this - for the construction of a multipurpose police station at Alpara; $21.6m for remote policing under the community safety and justice initiatives through the Stronger Futures package; and an extra $14.15m for police housing, overtime and key ITC systems to support effective service delivery.
We are putting money into mandatory rehabilitation to support, with a health response, people who have chronic alcohol abuse issues. In the past 11 years you have run out with BDRs and all these little things, but nothing worked. All that happened was the prison population increased and people were not treated.
We are the only government with the ticker to bring in a mandatory rehabilitation component to try to help people who have alcohol problems. We are helping people who have alcohol problems.
You would think the lefties on the other side, the socialist left, would be supportive of helping people who have chronic alcohol or substance abuse issues. The people we are helping …
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, 113. Get back to law and order because you are talking about a flawed process.
Madam SPEAKER: Sit down. It is not a point of order.
Mr GILES: This is a repetitive approach from someone who has nothing more to say and who is becoming highly irrelevant, not just in the Chamber, but in the Northern Territory. We look forward to the day when the member for Wanguri or the member for Fannie Bay finally gets the ticker to take the job off you. Then we might have a proper debate in this Chamber.
We are the only people who have the ticker to help those people, and the socialist left attacks us for trying to help. You can get congress in Alice Springs, together with all your Labor Party people there, to protest. We will stand committed and resolute in wanting to help people who have chronic alcohol abuse problems.
I challenge the Labor party to get a real leader: someone who supports helping people who have alcohol problems.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Drysdale for her question. I know she is very interested in safe communities in the Northern Territory, particularly in Palmerston and her electorate of Drysdale.
Under the former Labor government it was always a tough environment with community safety, but I can advise there has been a substantial increase in law and order, community safety and policing in the Northern Territory as part of this responsible budget, a budget of responsible action.
There is $22.5m for the extra 120 police …
Mr GUNNER: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, 113. All the money for extra police is coming from the Commonwealth.
Madam SPEAKER: That is not a point of order. Sit down!
Mr GILES: Madam Speaker, there was a misleading statement in that interjection. It is not true. There is $22.5m for the extra 120 police; an extra $2.1m for additional call centre support; $1.5m for the expansion of the Joint Emergency Services Communications Centre; $10.9m for a new police station in Alice Springs; $9.4m – I know the member for Namatjira is happy with this - for the construction of a multipurpose police station at Alpara; $21.6m for remote policing under the community safety and justice initiatives through the Stronger Futures package; and an extra $14.15m for police housing, overtime and key ITC systems to support effective service delivery.
We are putting money into mandatory rehabilitation to support, with a health response, people who have chronic alcohol abuse issues. In the past 11 years you have run out with BDRs and all these little things, but nothing worked. All that happened was the prison population increased and people were not treated.
We are the only government with the ticker to bring in a mandatory rehabilitation component to try to help people who have alcohol problems. We are helping people who have alcohol problems.
You would think the lefties on the other side, the socialist left, would be supportive of helping people who have chronic alcohol or substance abuse issues. The people we are helping …
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, 113. Get back to law and order because you are talking about a flawed process.
Madam SPEAKER: Sit down. It is not a point of order.
Mr GILES: This is a repetitive approach from someone who has nothing more to say and who is becoming highly irrelevant, not just in the Chamber, but in the Northern Territory. We look forward to the day when the member for Wanguri or the member for Fannie Bay finally gets the ticker to take the job off you. Then we might have a proper debate in this Chamber.
We are the only people who have the ticker to help those people, and the socialist left attacks us for trying to help. You can get congress in Alice Springs, together with all your Labor Party people there, to protest. We will stand committed and resolute in wanting to help people who have chronic alcohol abuse problems.
I challenge the Labor party to get a real leader: someone who supports helping people who have alcohol problems.
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016