Ms CARNEY - 2006-02-21
Can you explain how your antisocial behaviour legislation will address, and please say if it does not, growing problems such as the one we have recently seen in Parap, your electorate, of women, invariably drunk, I am told and I am sure you have been as well, prostituting themselves on the streets? Does your antisocial behaviour legislation do anything to deal with this problem?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, it is a very serious issue. Prostitution in the Northern Territory is a crime. It does not need antisocial behaviour legislation to deal with that. The situation that has happened in Parap Road, and has happened in other parts of my electorate over the 10 years I have been local member, is something that concerns me greatly, and it also concerns my constituents. We take very direct action from my office when it does happen; talk to police, there is an immediate response, and we certainly will not tolerate it.
The Parap Road activity is constantly monitored by police. You do have incidents happening from time to time which, I understand, are prostitution. It is cracked down on. Police are very active and will continue to be active to stamp out something that is a crime, and is unacceptable in any part of the Territory.
I make the point clearly that the antisocial behaviour legislation has a very particular target that we are dealing with in the House. Tackling prostitution, wherever it is in the Territory, is something the police will continue to crack down on and continue to prosecute.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, it is a very serious issue. Prostitution in the Northern Territory is a crime. It does not need antisocial behaviour legislation to deal with that. The situation that has happened in Parap Road, and has happened in other parts of my electorate over the 10 years I have been local member, is something that concerns me greatly, and it also concerns my constituents. We take very direct action from my office when it does happen; talk to police, there is an immediate response, and we certainly will not tolerate it.
The Parap Road activity is constantly monitored by police. You do have incidents happening from time to time which, I understand, are prostitution. It is cracked down on. Police are very active and will continue to be active to stamp out something that is a crime, and is unacceptable in any part of the Territory.
I make the point clearly that the antisocial behaviour legislation has a very particular target that we are dealing with in the House. Tackling prostitution, wherever it is in the Territory, is something the police will continue to crack down on and continue to prosecute.
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