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Legislative Assembly 18699 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Thursday 15 November 2001 ______ The Clerk announced the absence of Mr Speaker. Mr Deputy-Speaker (Mr John Charles Price) took the chair at 10.00 a.m. Mr Deputy-Speaker offered the Prayer. PRIVATE MEMBERS' STATEMENTS _________ WOY WOY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SAFETY SEMINARS Ms ANDREWS (Peats) [10.00 a.m.]: During the past month I have hosted a series of community safety seminars on the Woy Woy Peninsula. The first of those was at Pearl Beach on 5 October, then at Patonga on 9 October, Woy Woy on 15 October, Umina Beach on 29 October and Ettalong Beach on 31 October. With the co-operation of the acting commander, representatives of the Brisbane Water Local Area Command addressed the meetings and outlined the command system of operation. Local residents were then allowed to raise any questions or concerns regarding local policing. Superintendent Greg Ashurst, Acting Commander, Brisbane Water Local Area Command, attended all of the sessions. He was accompanied on each occasion by at least one other police officer, and often two police officers, from the local area command. I would like to acknowledge Acting Inspector Mark Hutchings, Crime Manager; Senior Sergeant Irene Juergens, Crime Prevention Officer; Sergeant Bruce Moore, Intelligence; Inspector Darren Cox, Duty Officer; and Acting Sergeant Steven Fishpool, Licensing. Anne Sullivan, a former tutor at the Trade Union Training Authority, and a person with a vast wealth of experience in a number of other very demanding areas, facilitated each of the information sessions. I place on record my appreciation of Anne Sullivan. A number of local residents who attended the sessions were surprised to learn that a lot of the time of police officers from the Brisbane Water Local Area Command, and indeed from the Central Coast, is spent responding to domestic violence. Sadly, the Central Coast has the third highest number of recorded domestic violence incidents within the entire State. This is nothing to be proud of. I am pleased to be able to report to the House that the Brisbane Water Local Area Command is taking this matter very seriously. The Crime Manager, Acting Inspector Mark Hutchings, reported on the actions of the Domestic Violence Intervention Response Team [DVIRT]. This team has proven to be very effective in helping to reduce the number of call-outs to domestic violence incidents. This is how the system works. On being called out to a domestic violence incident, the police officers in attendance ask whether the victim wishes to speak with DVIRT workers. If the answer is yes, the victim is asked to sign a form giving permission for personal details to be provided to DVIRT workers. If the victim wishes to have DVIRT workers attend and enter the premises to discuss domestic violence issues, the victim again is asked to sign a form giving permission for workers to attend and enter the premises. The risk assessment criteria are as follows: • The victim has signed the relevant authority requesting DVIRT workers to attend the premises. • The exact whereabouts of the offender is known and is not in a position to return to the premises, in most cases should be in custody. • The victim is not violent, intoxicated or affected by drugs... • There are no weapons or firearms left on the premises. • There are no other persons present who are intoxicated, violent or affected by drugs. • The victim is not suffering an injury or obvious mental illness. • Another location other than the victim's premises is not available, i..e. closest police station. • Full circumstances of the incident are correctly recorded. • A duty officer is contacted personally prior to contacting DVIRT. • Duty officer is informed prior to the offender being released from police custody. The duty officer will contact DVIRT with this information. 18700 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 15 November 2001 • Investigating police are responsible for taking into account all the circumstances and information available to ensure the safety of DVIRT counsellors and support workers while they are assisting police in domestic violence matters. • The duty officer is responsible and accountable for ensuring all available information is taken into account before deploying DVIRT to a domestic situation. A low risk rating should be determined prior to deployment. The counsellors participating in the scheme are State government department or agency employees and/or employees of a number of non-government agencies. The success rate to date has been outstanding. In fact, of the approximately 120 to 130 victims of domestic violence who have agreed to participate in the scheme, not one has called upon the police for further protection. [Time expired.] Mr WHELAN (Strathfield—Minister for Police) [10.05 a.m.]: I thank the honourable member for Peats for relating that information to the House. She delivered it with such feeling and conviction that she did not notice that her speaking time had expired. The honourable member raised two issues. One was the work done by the Brisbane Water Local Area Command. I thank the honourable member for taking the opportunity to convey thanks to those who have worked very assiduously in the difficult area of domestic violence on the Central Coast. Domestic violence is a problem not only on the Central Coast but in all of our communities. The Government has strengthened the law in relation to domestic violence to enable the community to protect women who live in domestic violence circumstances. Domestic violence is a crime under the Crimes Act. Whilst the primary concern is to bring a state of healing to domestic relationships, police are empowered to intervene in cases of domestic violence. The Government regards domestic violence as not only a crime involving policing issues but a matter involving a number of other government instrumentalities, including the Department of Health and the Department of Community Services, in dealing with socio-economic and other problems that lead to domestic violence. Following the very tragic death of a lady named Andrea Patrick in Manly in 1993, the Labor Opposition forced the Coalition Government to introduce anti-stalking laws. From that day the Police Service has taken on a new and profound role. I thank the honourable member for her contribution. MERIMBULA PUBLIC SCHOOL Mr R. H. L. SMITH (Bega) [10.07 a.m.]: I wish to relay to the House the absolute disappointment and sense of betrayal felt by the people of Merimbula regarding the redevelopment of the Merimbula Public School. Merimbula desperately needs a new public school. After many years of lobbying and planning by school councils, teachers and parents, plans to build a school on a seven- hectare site at Tura Beach, which is a few kilometres north of Merimbula, was announced some time ago. The land at Tura Beach was purchased a number of years ago by the Liberal New South Wales Government when Virginia Chadwick was Minister for Education and Training. The site was purchased at that time for a future Merimbula High School. The site, being seven hectares, was far in excess of the size required for a high school and would also accommodate a primary school, with adequate area for both schools. In April this year the plans to build on the site were quashed when the Department of Education and Training and the National Parks and Wildlife Service disallowed the development of the land at Tura Beach as a primary school and a high school, because of their selective interpretation of the Native Vegetation Conservation Act. This left the parents, school committee and 450 pupils of Merimbula Public School wondering whether they will ever receive their much-needed facility. However, in this year's budget, $228,000 was allocated to begin the planning of the redevelopment of the existing school, with promises of an additional $4.5 million for the building works. At last there was a spark of encouragement for a school committee that has slogged away for so many years on this project. Footprint plans for the new school were placed on display, giving the option of a single-storey or double-storey school. Hundreds of people inspected the plans, and the double-storey classrooms were promoted and approved because of the severe lack of playground space on the existing site. But once again the parents and citizens and the school council have had their illusions shattered. The project team has now recommended that the four existing single-storey classrooms should be retained and built around, in the interests of economic rationalisation! Three concept plans for the proposed development of the school were then presented to a meeting. None of them were based on the footprint plans that hundreds of people had perused and 100 per cent of the school community had approved. We are now told that the footprint plan is deemed too expensive, although no costings have been done at this stage. This is a very small site and, should the single-storey redevelopment of the existing school take place, the children will lose out on playground space, which was the main reason for the double-storey proposal. 15 November 2001 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 18701 The children need this space. Who has heard of a new school these days having such a little space for recreational activities? If the single-storey plan goes ahead, the 450 plus students will have only one playground for active sports such as football, cricket, et cetera, and very little space for those who do not or cannot participate in vigorous activities to sit and play quieter games. The preferred plan of the double-storey building would retain an area for the less-active children to relax in. On how many more occasions will this project be held up because of the cost-cutting methods of the Minister for Education and Training? The public, the teachers, the parents and the students are totally disappointed and disillusioned with this Labor Government's failure to deliver the goods.
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