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Hansard 16 Sep 1998 16 Sep 1998 Ministerial Statement 2209 WEDNESDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 1998 Queenslanders. These bodies play a vital role in the administration of the State and the delivery of services to Queenslanders. They help set direction, maintain excellence and Mr SPEAKER (Hon. R. K. Hollis, Redcliffe) ensure accountability for a range of read prayers and took the chair at 9.30 a.m. Government operations and public enterprises. The Government's use of a central register will enhance accessibility to OMBUDSMAN Government decision making. It will broaden Report the range of Queenslanders appointed to Mr SPEAKER: Order! I have to report that boards and statutory positions. It is one thing today I received from the Ombudsman a for people to volunteer to serve on such report entitled Rate Recovery Practices of bodies, but it is crucial that we do our best to Local Governments in Queensland. I table the give them a detailed explanation of what is said report. required of them. This week my Government has approved PAPERS publication of a guide for members of Government boards, committees and statutory STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AND REPORT authorities. The new guide has undergone The following statutory instrument and report extensive consultation. It consolidates into one were tabled by The Clerk— book, for the first time in Queensland, information relevant to the operation of Judges (Salaries and Allowances) Act 1967 and Government boards, committees and statutory Statutory Instruments Act 1992— authorities. The guide will assist Government Judges Salaries and Allowances Tribunal board members in the informed and effective Determination (No. 1) 1998 performance of their duties. It will assist the Eighteenth Report by the Salaries and Government in pursuing accountability and Allowances Tribunal dated 19 May 1998. fiscal responsibility in respect of decisions made by Government bodies. The guide is available for purchase at MINISTERIAL STATEMENT Goprint at nominal cost and will be subject to Statutory Authorities and Boards annual review to ensure its continued Hon. P. D. BEATTIE (Brisbane Central— relevance and utility. What we are doing is ALP) (Premier) (9.31 a.m.), by leave: I wish to giving more power to the people. advise members about two important Government initiatives to open up Government MINISTERIAL STATEMENT to more and more people and to enhance accountability by statutory authorities, Crime Prevention Task Force committees and other Government bodies. I Hon. P. D. BEATTIE (Brisbane Central— am talking about real people ALP) (Premier) (9.34 a.m.), by leave: This power—government of the people by the Government is demonstrating that it is tough people. Cabinet has approved implementation on crime and tough on the causes of crime. A of a central register of nominees to high-powered crime prevention task force Government bodies so that people can under my personal supervision will drive a nominate themselves to serve on Government $47m Crime Prevention Strategy. As a bodies. Advertisements for expressions of community, crime costs us more than $2 billion interest for the register appeared in major a year and a lot of hurt, anguish, heartbreak weekend editions of all metropolitan and and misery. That is why this task force has regional newspapers in Queensland. been established. It will work closely with the I urge members of all parties to assist with relevant Ministers and police. the success of this initiative by encouraging Crime prevention is far better than trying constituents to lodge their details with the to deal with the damaging effects of crime. It is register. There are more than 400 Queensland far better to prevent cancer than to try to cut it Government boards and statutory authorities out after it has developed. We will provide an involved in a broad range of Government extra 317 police this year, with an extra 10 decision making. Individually and collectively police shopfronts and an extra 10 police beats, these bodies have considerable decision- some of which the Minister for Police has making power which impacts upon the already announced. We promised juvenile economic and social wellbeing of all crime prevention and early intervention 2210 Ministerial Statement 16 Sep 1998 programs. We will be spending $3m a year on before offenders are sentenced. I table a copy the positive parenting program. We promised of an article which appeared in the Courier-Mail to combat violence against women, to set up on 7 July 1998 which highlighted possible meaningful drug and alcohol strategies and to problems in this area. Of course, where there assist organisations that look after victims of are disputes over material facts relevant to crime. We have provided $4m to reduce sentence, these have to be resolved by the alcohol and drug related crime and an extra calling of evidence and attendant cross- $1m to victims' associations. examination. We had set aside $35m for this Crime This may include the evidence of a victim, Prevention Strategy. We have now set aside particularly where the fact in issue is grave and an extra $12m for the Urban Renewal the consequences for sentencing of an Program. This will make a total of $47m. offender are serious. The decision of the court The task force will include nine other means that the prosecution may have to prove departments, the Criminal Justice Commission, in court the validity of a victim's impact the Victims of Crime Association and youth statement beyond reasonable doubt, whereas and business community representatives. Only previously factual issues such as those in directors-general or deputy directors-general victim impact statements could be decided on will sit on the task force which will report to the balance of probabilities, subject to the Cabinet on progress every six months. proviso that the requisite degree of probability is commensurate with the importance and This year alone the Government will gravity of the issue and the consequences. spend $27m on our Urban Renewal Program, This is known as the Briginshaw test. which aims to improve lifestyle and neighbourhood pride and slash the crime rate A person who has been bashed or raped in problem areas across the State. At does not deserve to suffer further trauma Riverview, near Ipswich, calls to police dropped through his or her association with the criminal by an astonishing 60% after the Labor justice system. The Queensland Labor Government introduced an urban renewal Government will address this issue through program. This is part of our strategy about community consultation. Consideration is being tough on crime and tough on the being given to amending section 15 of the causes of crime. Penalties and Sentences Act and section 109(3) of the Juvenile Justice Act to change the standard of proof for disputed matters on MINISTERIAL STATEMENT sentence back to its state prior to the Court of Fact Finding on Sentence Appeal decision. In Victoria, sections 95a to 95e of the Sentencing Act make it clear that a Hon. M. J. FOLEY (Yeronga—ALP) person who has made a victim impact (Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and statement may be required to give evidence Minister for The Arts) (9.37 a.m.), by leave: I and be cross-examined, while the offender take this opportunity to outline to the House may call witnesses in rebuttal. another initiative that the Queensland Labor Government is taking to bring about a culture Mr Justice Charles of the Victorian Court change in the criminal justice system—to shift of Appeal said— its focus back onto the victims of crime while "The evident purpose of the 1994 respecting the traditional rights of accused legislation was to give victims of crime an persons. Already I have released discussion opportunity to place before the courts papers on reforms to stalking laws and to the their own statement of the impact a crime Criminal Offence Victims Act as part of this has had upon them and their families process. and, in doing so, both to involve victims in Today I have pleasure in tabling a the workings of the criminal justice system discussion paper entitled Fact Finding on and to ensure that judges are educated Sentence and I encourage Queenslanders to as to the consequences of the crimes with read the document and make a submission to which they are concerned in sentencing. my department by 26 October. Part of the It would be quite destructive of the discussion paper deals with victim impact purpose of these statements if their statements and it is about this aspect of the reception in evidence were surrounded paper that I wish to speak today. and confined by the sorts of procedural A recent decision by the Queensland rules applicable to the treatment of Court of Appeal has increased the likelihood of witness statements in commercial cases. victims of crimes facing cross-examination in The reception of victim impact court about their victim impact statements statements must, it seems to me, be 16 Sep 1998 Ministerial Statement 2211 approached by sentencing judges with a During construction, this project will degree of flexibility; subject, of course, to employ up to 1,100 people and when it is the overriding concern that, in justice to operational it will support 40 permanent jobs. the offender, the judge must be alert to Coal for the project will come from the nearby avoid placing reliance on inadmissible Callide coalfields and will require a $30m matter." upgrade of the field's mining infrastructure. The point of reforms in this area in This is also good news for the region. The Queensland legislation is to make the criminal development of this low-cost power station is justice system work better for victims without expected to place downward pressure on prejudicing the traditional rights of accused electricity pool prices.
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