Page 2450 - Week 08 - Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Leave granted.
MR GENTLEMAN: It is a photo of an alleged offender under this act actually in the process of committing what seems to be an offence. For the Hansard, the photo is of Mr Pratt.
Mr Mulcahy: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. The Chief Minister, in question time, and now Mr Gentleman are attempting to canvass a matter which the Chief Minister has indicated—
MR SPEAKER: What is the point of order?
Mr Mulcahy: It is a sub judice matter. He has indicated it is being investigated by the police. It is matter that is potentially before the court.
MR SPEAKER: It is not sub judice; it is not in the courts.
MR GENTLEMAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I have tabled that photo for the Hansard. If we had modern technology, of course, I would be able to send members the YouTube post with the video action happening. In his press release Mr Pratt says:
Under section 119 of the Crimes Act a person who defaces public or private property faces a maximum penalty of $1,000, imprisonment for six months or both.
I think it is time that Mr Pratt handed himself in to police and paid the fine. He could take some lessons from his leader, Mr Stefaniak. He handed himself in when he committed an offence, and I understand he has paid his fine. If Mr Pratt believed in the law, he would hand himself in to police, tell them he has committed an offence under section 119 of the Crimes Act and pay the fine. He could take the photo if he needed support.
Legal graffiti art sites are mapped and published on the TAMS website at www.tams.act.gov.au. Additional legal graffiti art sites are being considered in relation to illegal use of the area, community support and other characteristics. Consultations are ongoing with a group of graffiti writers regarding the graffiti management strategy. Parks, conservation and lands are using the AUSGR, the graffiti register, to record details, including photographs, of illegal graffiti and report on all graffiti removed under the PCL graffiti removal contracts. Discussions are continuing for ACT Housing to join the AUSGR graffiti register system.
In July, PCL, in partnership with Redlink and the police and citizens youth club ran a series of graffiti art workshops led by a youth worker and an experienced aerosol artist. Workshop participants worked collectively to paint large-scale murals over illegal graffiti on selected sites. Negotiations to run street art workshops until July 2008 are currently underway and have been approved in principle. Street art workshops will include diversionary measures to redirect youth at risk into legal street art applications, such as those used by photographic artists, designers and sign writers in facets of aerosol art. Airbrushing, stencilling and postering and associated business
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