"BROOKLYN" DOG RESCUE 5865 ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE 5840 AN AFTERNOON AT THE PROMS 5864 ASIAN AUSTRALIAN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION 5864 ATTORNEY GENERAL AND REAL ENERGY SHAREHOLDING 5840, 5842, 5843, 5847 BANKSTOWN REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE 5830 BLUESCOPE STEEL, PORT KEMBLA 5858 BROOKFARM MUESLI 5870 BUSHLINK 5867 BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 5806, 5840, 5851 CBD AND SOUTH EAST LIGHT RAIL PROJECT 5821 CENTENARY OF ANZAC 5857 CENTRAL COAST HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING 5846 CENTRAL COAST REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICES 5883 CESSNOCK ELECTORATE SCHOOLS 5833 CHERRYBROOK CHINESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 5829 CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) AMENDMENT (PROTECTION FROM SERIOUS OFFENDERS) BILL 2015 5806 COMMUNITY RECOGNITION STATEMENTS 5862 CONCORD HOSPITAL UPGRADE 5833 CONSITUTION HILL COMMUNITY 5866 COOEE MARCH ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY RE-ENACTMENT 5822, 5885 COOKS RIVER FOR KIDS PROGRAM 5863 COURABYRA WINERY 5864 DATA SHARING (GOVERNMENT SECTOR) BILL 2015 5840 DELANY COLLEGE ART SHOW 5867 DEMOCRACY IN BURMA 5826 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 5815 DRIVERLESS CARS 5882 FAIRFAX MEDIA REGIONAL STAFF CUTS 5878 FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT BILL 2015 5806 GAMING MACHINES AMENDMENT (CENTRALISED MONITORING SYSTEM) BILL 2015 5852 GRAFTON CORRECTIONAL CENTRE 5878 GREATER SYDNEY COMMISSION BILL 2015 5806, 5855 GREEN SQUARE HOUSING DENSITY 5877 HEATHCOTE ELECTORATE SERVICE ORGANISATIONS 5820 HONEYBEARS EARLY LEARNING CENTRE 5863 HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE AWARDS 5865 ILLAWARRA SERVICE NSW CENTRE 5873 IRIS FOUNDATION 5868 JACK LITTLEFIELD LIGHT MIDDLEWEIGHT BOXING TITLE 5873 LIMITATION AMENDMENT (CHILD ABUSE CIVIL ACTIONS) BILL 2015 5810 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AMALGAMATIONS 5843 MACARTHUR DIVERSITY SERVICES INITIATIVE 5886 MEDIBANK JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT SERIES STATE TENNIS FINALS 5868 MEN FROM SNOW RIVER RECRUITMENT MARCH RE-ENACTMENT 5874 MICHELLE CLARKE, RETIRED POLICE OFFICER 5862 MID NORTH COAST STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE AWARDS 5828 MINGARA ATHLETICS CLUB 5865 MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER HARMONY WALK 5866 MULWALA NETBALL CLUB 5864 NEW LAND MAGAZINE 5872 NEW SOUTH WALES RACING 5840 NORTH WEST GROWTH CENTRE ROAD NETWORK STRATEGY 5832 PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE AWARDS 5839 PARRAMATTA ELECTORATE EVENTS 5884 PAYROLL TAX DEFERRAL (BLUESCOPE STEEL) BILL 2015 5856 PENRITH ANGLICAN COLLEGE 5872 PENRITH VALLEY PRIMARY SCHOOLS PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION 5834 PERSONAL EXPLANATION 5851 PETITIONS 5852 PICTON MAGPIES RUGBY LEAGUE TEAM 5871 PORT STEPHENS MARINE RESCUE 5827 PRIVATE MEMBERS' STATEMENTS 5820, 5873 QUEEN OF HEARTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 5864 QUESTION TIME 5840 REDEEMER BAPTIST SCHOOL 5880 REGIONAL NEW SOUTH WALES 5849 REMEMBRANCE DAY AND MARSDEN HIGH SCHOOL 5876 REMEMBRANCE DAY REFLECTIONS PROJECT 5866 ROTARY CLUBS OF NSW 2015 NSW POLICE OFFICER AWARDS 5875 ROZELLE RESIDENTS ACTION GROUP 5869 RUGBY UNION ATHLETE OF THE YEAR SEAN PAYNE 5867 RURAL AND REGIONAL JOBS CREATION 5842 SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE REGULATION OF BROTHELS 5835 SHOALHAVEN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CENTRE 5873 SHOALHAVEN SUPERHEROES FESTIVAL GALA DINNER 5865 SOUTH SYDNEY GRAPHIC ARTS CLUB 5869 SOUTH WEST ROCKS SPORT AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION 5869 ST GEORGE BRICK FAIR 5871 ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE STUDENT PORTIA FERDINAND 5870 SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION FORUM YOUTH REPRESENTATIVE PARRYS RAINES 5871 SUTHERLAND SHIRE LOCAL BUSINESS AWARDS 5869 SYDNEY SECOND AIRPORT 5824 TANTI FINANCIAL SERVICES PINK BREAKFAST 5867 TRIBUTE TO ANDREW GOODMAN 5871 TRIBUTE TO BARRY WALBANCKE 5866 TRIBUTE TO BILL SAVAROVSKI 5871 TRIBUTE TO BOB MONTGOMERY AND PETER SHEHADIE 5868 TRIBUTE TO EVE ROWELL 5863 TRIBUTE TO GRETA HAYES 5825 TRIBUTE TO JANICE GOODEN 5872 TRIBUTE TO JESSE CROSS 5868 TRIBUTE TO MEL FLEMMING 5870 TRIBUTE TO THELMA SPENCER 5879 TRIPLE CARE FARM 5823 VICTOR AND MARGARET MCCUTCHEON SIXTY-FIFTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY 5872 VISITORS 5806, 5839 WOLLONDILLY ELECTORATE RURAL FIRE SERVICE BRIGADES 5831 WOOLLAHRA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL 5845 WYONG NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE 5881 WYONG YOUTH FRONTIERS SHOWCASE 5870 YOUTH FRONTIERS PROGRAM 5863 YOUTH POWR 5865 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Thursday 12 November 2015 __________ The Speaker (The Hon. Shelley Elizabeth Hancock) took the chair at 10.00 a.m. The Speaker read the Prayer and acknowledgement of country. GREATER SYDNEY COMMISSION BILL 2015 Message received from the Legislative Council returning the bill with amendments. Consideration of the Legislative Council's amendments set down as an order of the day for a later hour. FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT BILL 2015 Bill received from the Legislative Council, introduced and read a first time. Second reading set down as an order of the day for a later hour. VISITORS The SPEAKER: I welcome to the gallery the Homicide Victims' Support Group Inc., guests of the member for Prospect. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE Notices of Motions General Business Notices of Motions (General Notices) given. CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) AMENDMENT (PROTECTION FROM SERIOUS OFFENDERS) BILL 2015 Bill introduced on motion by Ms Mihailuk, read a first time and printed. Second Reading Ms TANIA MIHAILUK (Bankstown) [10.13 a.m.]: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I have introduced the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Amendment (Protection from Serious Offenders) Bill 2015 on behalf of the Opposition with mixed feelings: with a sense of pride for championing the rights of the most vulnerable and voiceless in our community, that is, abused children, and with a sense of sorrow for the children this bill is intended to protect. The purpose of the bill is to protect existing and future children of parents who have committed murder, manslaughter and other certain serious offences against their own children. The bill will ensure that any person convicted of the murder or manslaughter of a child or of certain other serious offences in relation to a child, where the offender was the parent or guardian of the victim, will automatically have his or her future children removed from his or her care at birth. The bill provides for the issue of restraining notices so that any person convicted of such an offence may be prevented from residing on the same property as a child or young person or from coming within a specified distance of the child or young person's residence or having any contact with the child or young person. Nelson Mandela said: There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. I have brought this bill to the Parliament following three particularly devastating cases of child abuse which resulted in the most horrific end imaginable for an innocent child, that is, death. The first case I refer to occurred in 2012 when four-year-old Chloe Valentine was tragically killed after being repeatedly forced by her mother and her mother's partner to ride and crash a 50 kilogram motorbike. At the time of her death, Chloe Valentine had been the subject of 20 child protection notifications to Families SA, the South Australian equivalent of the New South Wales Department of Family and Community Services. The coronial inquest into the death of Chloe Valentine examined the circumstances of Chloe's life and death. The tragic death of Chloe Valentine highlighted the manner in which child protection authorities in South Australia had mishandled her case and the need for reform in this area. The South Australian coroner made 21 recommendations in order to prevent other children suffering from the kind of neglect and harm that Chloe Valentine suffered at the hands of her carers. Recommendation 22.2 of the inquiry reads: I recommend that the Children's Protection Act 1993 be amended to provide that a child born to a person who has a conviction in respect of a child previously born to them for manslaughter by criminal neglect, manslaughter or murder will, by force of the Act, be placed from birth under the custody of the Minister. The South Australian Coroner also recommended specific reform to the internal processes of Families SA and to the training and practices of social workers, as well as a broader application of income management measures across the State. The South Australian Labor Government fully supported 19 of the recommendations and gave in-principle support for one recommendation. The remaining recommendation is subject to further investigation arising from the coronial inquest into the death of Chloe Valentine. This case, and the resulting coronial recommendations, has resulted in strong legislative action in South Australia and a bill to implement the coroner's recommendations is currently before the South Australian Legislative Council. On 6 May 2015, the South Australian Labor Government became the first State or Territory government in Australia to propose a bill, known as the Children's Protection (Implementation of Coroner's Recommendations) Amendment Bill 2015, that provides for the automatic removal of a child from a parent or guardian with a previous serious violent conviction against their own child. The South Australian Government's bill follows the recommendations of the coronial inquest into the death of Chloe Valentine and broadens the range of disqualifying offences proposed by the coroner in his report to include the serious harm offences of: an offence against section 23 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935, causing serious harm; and an offence against section 29 (1) or section 29 (2) of the Criminal Law 5 Consolidation Act 1935, acts endangering life or creating risk of serious harm. The bill proposed by the South Australian Government also provides for the Chief Executive of the Department of Education and Child Development to issue an Instrument of Guardianship in respect of the child, and to apply for a restraining notice against a person who has been found guilty of a disqualifying offence, if it is found that a child is residing or about to reside with that person. A restraining notice may prohibit an offender, who in this case is a person other than the parent, from residing with a child, from residing in the same premises as a child, coming within a specified distance of the child's residence, having any contact with the child except under supervision, and having any contact at all with the child.