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MR HUMPHRIES: It has as much to do with it as what you were saying, Mr Berry. I suggest that you sit down and listen to it.
Mr Speaker, this is a government of ideas and initiatives in the area of corrective services. We acknowledge that these issues are complex and deserve to be considered seriously from that point of view. We are conscious, in particular, of rising concerns on the part of the community about problems of law and order, problems of people not being able to walk in security along streets in Canberra or live in their homes in some security. We, as a community, need to be aware of that, and, as a government, we need to respond to that.
This Government's initiatives in the area of corrective services will continue to be developed through consultation with the wider community, in concert with views formed and presented by backbenchers of this Government. I think that, out of that synthesis of views, we will see developed over time a very effective corrective services policy.
MR MOORE (11.37): The irony of this debate, Mr Speaker, is that this Government is very interested in dealing with people after they offend and in ensuring that that is the approach that they take.
Not so long ago in this house the idea of a select committee to look into crime prevention was squashed by this Government. So, of course, it will have to spend more money. If you look at it from a straight economic point of view, even apart from a humanitarian point of view, the approach that it is taking to this whole issue is limited indeed.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Proposed expenditure - Division 160 - Agency Planning and Resource Management for the Department of Justice and Community Services, $1,551,400 - agreed to.
Department of Urban Services
Proposed expenditure - Division 170 - Tourism, $4,654,000 - agreed to.
Proposed expenditure - Division 180 - Public Transport, $66,965,900
MRS GRASSBY (11.39): Mr Speaker, I rise to make a point that was made in the Estimates Committee. I asked the General Manager of ACTION whether he thought there was enough money in the budget for ACTION to supply extra buses to bus children to government schools and the extra private schools that this Government has added to the list? I got the answer from the General Manager of ACTION, Mr Wadsworth, that it was not enough.
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