Department of the Legislative Assembly, Northern Territory Government

Mr REED - 2002-02-26

In relation to the matters that he has been asked about by the member for Goyder, and he has stated that he is not aware of any occurrence whereby the former minister directed the staff of the Correctional Services Department to transfer only Asian or white prisoners to Alice Springs and not Aboriginal people, did the minister have a meeting during January this year with the Northern Territory Prison Officers Association?

ANSWER

Madam Speaker, I am assuming it is not a trick question so I will say yes, I have. I had a meeting with them some three or four weeks ago, from memory, and I think some 14 of them attended. We canvassed a very wide range of issues mainly to do with the Labor Party policy on Corrections.
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