Mr McADAM - 2004-02-19
The Barkly region’s Safe Communities Committee has received $20 000 under the Crime Prevention Grants Scheme for a project to reduce vandalism and graffiti in Tennant Creek. Can the minister please inform the House as to the ways in which the Martin Labor government is supporting community initiatives to tackle crime and its causes?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for his question on this important matter. I do not have the body shape of Big Kev, but I am very excited about this. The reason I am excited is that it gets to the heart of the strategy on attacking crime. The strategy we are following is that the government cannot do this alone. You have to form very strong partnerships with communities, develop initiatives for crime prevention from the grassroots upwards, and provide the resources to the communities that are getting their ideas together.
In our $400 000 a year grants scheme, this round has gone out to 32 applicants out of a total of 56 applications we received. There are some fantastic ideas spread right round the Territory, whether it was in Darwin, the other major regional centres or out bush. I will give members a few examples: the Borella Park Local Crime Prevention Committee, based in Jingili, received $15 000 to discourage antisocial behaviour by increasing access to and the use of the park, through a community safety audit. Palmerston City Council received $10 000 for Onto the Grind to deliver and expand out of hours sport and recreation options for young people in Palmerston CBD. The Central Australian Safer Community Committee was awarded $15 000 to develop an early intervention program pilot for families of children under five, based on research and community consultation. The Western Aranda Relekha Corporation Committee received $15 000 to develop …
Mr Elferink: Hear, hear!
Dr TOYNE: …no thanks to you, old mate,. … programs to tackle issues of youth boredom and substance abuse. Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre received $10 000 for Believe in Yourself, a series of workshops and performance opportunities for indigenous youth between eight and 25 years of age throughout the Northern Territory. The workshops will help to raise awareness of crime prevention issues in indigenous and non-indigenous young people through the performing arts.
This government recognises that to prevent crime the causes of crime must be addressed. Empowering local people, who are determined to make a difference in their own communities, is one way of doing this through the establishment of regional crime prevention councils and local crime prevention committees, and by providing the sort of funding that we have outlined today, for good ideas coming from the community. I wish all of the grant recipients all the very best in the initiatives they will now be following.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for his question on this important matter. I do not have the body shape of Big Kev, but I am very excited about this. The reason I am excited is that it gets to the heart of the strategy on attacking crime. The strategy we are following is that the government cannot do this alone. You have to form very strong partnerships with communities, develop initiatives for crime prevention from the grassroots upwards, and provide the resources to the communities that are getting their ideas together.
In our $400 000 a year grants scheme, this round has gone out to 32 applicants out of a total of 56 applications we received. There are some fantastic ideas spread right round the Territory, whether it was in Darwin, the other major regional centres or out bush. I will give members a few examples: the Borella Park Local Crime Prevention Committee, based in Jingili, received $15 000 to discourage antisocial behaviour by increasing access to and the use of the park, through a community safety audit. Palmerston City Council received $10 000 for Onto the Grind to deliver and expand out of hours sport and recreation options for young people in Palmerston CBD. The Central Australian Safer Community Committee was awarded $15 000 to develop an early intervention program pilot for families of children under five, based on research and community consultation. The Western Aranda Relekha Corporation Committee received $15 000 to develop …
Mr Elferink: Hear, hear!
Dr TOYNE: …no thanks to you, old mate,. … programs to tackle issues of youth boredom and substance abuse. Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre received $10 000 for Believe in Yourself, a series of workshops and performance opportunities for indigenous youth between eight and 25 years of age throughout the Northern Territory. The workshops will help to raise awareness of crime prevention issues in indigenous and non-indigenous young people through the performing arts.
This government recognises that to prevent crime the causes of crime must be addressed. Empowering local people, who are determined to make a difference in their own communities, is one way of doing this through the establishment of regional crime prevention councils and local crime prevention committees, and by providing the sort of funding that we have outlined today, for good ideas coming from the community. I wish all of the grant recipients all the very best in the initiatives they will now be following.
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016