Ms CARNEY - 2006-10-10
In your previous two answers, and the minister for Police’s previous answer, you referred to domestic violence. In light of your answers, I ask: can you provide an update on the status of the data collection project undertaken by your domestic violence advisory council, headed by Jane Lloyd? You will recall that that council advised you that the data collection for domestic violence needed to be updated.
Can you also provide details of the conviction rates for perpetrators of domestic violence? Why are the figures not provided in your government’s crime statistics about the rates of domestic violence, and because they are not, how then can you say that the increase in the crime figures is a result of increased domestic violence?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, the issue of the data collection project and the other issues that were raised, I do not know whether the minister responsible has that data and whether I should …
Ms Carney: Your advisory council, I believe; Chief Minister’s advisory council.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! The Chief Minister is answering the question.
Ms MARTIN: Madam Speaker, the Minister for Women’s Policy has carriage of that, quite properly …
Ms Carney: You do not know, okay.
Ms MARTIN: Madam Speaker, if the Opposition Leader asks a question, then making demeaning comments while you are trying to answer is not actually very productive.
Ms Carney: It is called the Chief Minister’s domestic violence advisory council.
Madam SPEAKER: Order!
Ms MARTIN: I would have thought that the Opposition Leader would have understood ministerial carriage. We read them out this morning and it has been the case for the last 12 months. I will pass to the Minister for Women’s Policy for that answer.
Ms SCRYMGOUR (Women’s Policy): Madam Speaker, in relation to the Leader of the Opposition’s question, the Domestic and Family Violence Advisory Council has just finished looking at the whole data collection. That has only just come to me and we are looking at that. It will not only involve the Office of Women’s Policy but, because of the service delivery part where the Domestic and Family Violence Unit moved from the Community Engagement division of the Department of the Chief Minister and went to the Community Services division within the Department of Health and Community Services, there will be discussion. I am drafting a memo which will go the Minister for Family and Community Services about how we involve across interagency with those areas. It is not just about FACS, it is also police and other agencies that will need to take carriage of that.
Having a quick look at that report, yes, there have been some spikes and increases, but at the same time it shows that the Domestic and Personal Violence Protection Unit within the police force is certainly working, so there has been a very proactive approach taken by the police in those areas. I could provide further information to the House before the end of Question Time in relation to that. Yes, that report has come to me and I am having a look at it.
Can you also provide details of the conviction rates for perpetrators of domestic violence? Why are the figures not provided in your government’s crime statistics about the rates of domestic violence, and because they are not, how then can you say that the increase in the crime figures is a result of increased domestic violence?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, the issue of the data collection project and the other issues that were raised, I do not know whether the minister responsible has that data and whether I should …
Ms Carney: Your advisory council, I believe; Chief Minister’s advisory council.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! The Chief Minister is answering the question.
Ms MARTIN: Madam Speaker, the Minister for Women’s Policy has carriage of that, quite properly …
Ms Carney: You do not know, okay.
Ms MARTIN: Madam Speaker, if the Opposition Leader asks a question, then making demeaning comments while you are trying to answer is not actually very productive.
Ms Carney: It is called the Chief Minister’s domestic violence advisory council.
Madam SPEAKER: Order!
Ms MARTIN: I would have thought that the Opposition Leader would have understood ministerial carriage. We read them out this morning and it has been the case for the last 12 months. I will pass to the Minister for Women’s Policy for that answer.
Ms SCRYMGOUR (Women’s Policy): Madam Speaker, in relation to the Leader of the Opposition’s question, the Domestic and Family Violence Advisory Council has just finished looking at the whole data collection. That has only just come to me and we are looking at that. It will not only involve the Office of Women’s Policy but, because of the service delivery part where the Domestic and Family Violence Unit moved from the Community Engagement division of the Department of the Chief Minister and went to the Community Services division within the Department of Health and Community Services, there will be discussion. I am drafting a memo which will go the Minister for Family and Community Services about how we involve across interagency with those areas. It is not just about FACS, it is also police and other agencies that will need to take carriage of that.
Having a quick look at that report, yes, there have been some spikes and increases, but at the same time it shows that the Domestic and Personal Violence Protection Unit within the police force is certainly working, so there has been a very proactive approach taken by the police in those areas. I could provide further information to the House before the end of Question Time in relation to that. Yes, that report has come to me and I am having a look at it.
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