Page 452 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 21 March 2023
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Mr Hanson: It is not my analysis. It is the Australian Catholic University’s.
MR BARR: I do not accept your analysis, Mr Hanson. I do not suggest there is no problem, but your assertions are over the top. This is a societal problem that needs to be addressed by parents, students, the education system, the broader community and governments. It is not something where government can just click its fingers and solve centuries of societal problems that see physical violence as something—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, enough!
MR BARR: —that some people see as being acceptable. Physical violence is not acceptable in a school or in any other setting.
MS LAWDER: Chief Minister, how can you justify these troubling results and the lack of resources, as stated by principals themselves, when you are spending billions of dollars on a tram?
MR BARR: Investment in public transport does not detract from investment in other areas of the territory government’s responsibilities. Government has to be able to do more than one thing. Government has to be able to do more than one thing. To be more than a one trick pony. Unlike Mr Hanson, who has only one issue—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, you will be warned!
MR BARR: It is important that the government invests in health, in education, in public transport, in community services, in economic development, in mental health and in all the things that we have responsibility for. That is what the annual budget process is about. It is something we will turn our minds to as we deliver the 2023-24 budget, but the idea that you can just carve off public transport as unnecessary is an idea that the government rejects.
Justice—age of criminal responsibility
MR PETTERSSON: My question is to the Minister for Families and Community Services. Minister, can you update the Assembly on the work towards raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility, in particular the development of an alternative service response?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Mr Pettersson for the question and for his ongoing interest in the nation-leading reform that this government is implementing in a range of areas. I am pleased to be working with my colleagues Minister Rattenbury and Minister Davidson to implement raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility. The age is currently 10 years in the ACT, as it is across Australia—something that most people are not aware of and are quite shocked by when they hear it. It is a key
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