Page 1010 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 30 March 2011
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This is such an important process that I need to go back to the comments made by Ms Burch in her “la, la, la” thing. Again yesterday on 2CC, a caller rang Mike Welsh and Mike Welsh asked her:
The minister, Joy Burch, in front of the staff members making claims, put her finger in her ears and went “la, la, la, la, la” …
The caller said:
I witnessed her doing that … I can visualise it now. She turned her body away from us while she did that. She put her hands over her ears and went “la, la, la, la, I don’t want to know” …
The minister came in here and for two days in a row said that did not happen. But a caller is prepared to out herself by going on air and saying, “Yes she did,” because they are so desperate. The caller continued:
We told her about the injuries on young people by staff—
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mrs Dunne, one moment please. Stop the clocks, thank you. Members, let us not get into unparliamentary language due to some of the comments being made across the chamber, thank you.
MRS DUNNE: We need to ask this question: why are people coming out? I think I should close with the comment from somebody who posted on the Canberra Times website yesterday:
Having worked at the old Quamby Youth Justice Centre a decade ago it is concerning that nothing has really changed. When staff members can’t get support from management on such vital issues the system has simply failed.
And the writer goes on:
Initiate a Judicial inquiry, clear out ineffective management and clean the place up!
Amen to that. “Hear, hear!” to the people of Canberra who are prepared to speak out and the say the system is broken, the system is corrupted, and we need a judicial inquiry.
MS BURCH (Brindabella—Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, Minister for Children and Young People, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for Women) (10.17): I will start at the very beginning: we will not be supporting Mrs Dunne’s motion.
Mr Hanson: Surprise, surprise!
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