Page 4210 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 23 October 2019
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MS STEPHEN-SMITH: The interim report that I tabled the executive summary of from Peter Muir in relation to the incident clearly confirmed that this incident could not have been predicted by the management and staff at Bimberi and that there were no obvious precursors to this incident.
It is simply not possible to staff a centre the size of Bimberi in the expectation that at some point you might need a whole lot of extra staff. We saw what happened during a period of very low numbers of young people in Bimberi, when casual staff who could not get shifts went and got other jobs, and that led to a level of difficulty in staffing the centre as we went through a period of recruitment.
Yes, it is always regrettable when we have to implement operational lockdowns, and that obviously has an impact on young people. But I also emphasise that young people have access to educational materials, they have access to books, they have access to a range of things while they are in their cabins. This is not isolation and it is certainly not lacking in access to—
Mrs Dunne: It is isolation. They are in their rooms by themselves.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: Isolation has a very clear meaning. I will put on record again that Mrs Kikkert on multiple occasions yesterday misused that word in a completely irresponsible way, completely misrepresenting—
Opposition members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Members, please.
Mrs Dunne: She used the common man’s meaning of the word.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne.
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: the management of Bimberi Youth Justice Centre in a way that is completely irresponsible for the shadow minister in this portfolio.
Opposition members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Members, please. Mr Pettersson has the floor.
Government—infrastructure plan
MR PETTERSSON: My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, can you please tell the Assembly about the recently launched ACT infrastructure plan?
Mrs Dunne interjecting—
MR BARR: I thank Mr Pettersson for the question and Mrs Dunne for her interjection. Of course the infrastructure plan outlines the government’s agenda for the coming decades for our city to make Canberra even more liveable, to modernise
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