Page 2801 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 11 October 2022
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identify the make of it. Two teenage boys who were in the car, one of them the driver, are thought to have fled the scene but been identified by police later.
I now quote from ACT Policing:
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of culpable driving causing death following a single vehicle collision yesterday. The boy has also been charged with single counts of breach of bail, breach of good behaviour order, driving as an unaccompanied learner, and failing to stop and render assistance.
Let me say that again for those in this place who say bail is working as it should. This is a quote from ACT Policing: The boy has also been charged with single counts of breach of bail and breach of a good behaviour order.
Sadly, the refusal to commit to a review leaves us with no option but to call for Mr Rattenbury’s removal as the Attorney-General. The confidence of our police and our community in their justice system must be restored.
Let me first turn to our frontline police. They are putting themselves in danger every day to keep our community safe and they are being let down. They have lost confidence in Mr Rattenbury and called for him to step down. Let me quote from a Canberra Times article from 16 September titled “Australian Federal Police Association calls for ACT Attorney General, Shane Rattenbury, to step down”:
The police association has called for ACT Attorney General Shane Rattenbury to step down as a result of his unwillingness to instigate an independent judicial review.
The association, which represents some 4000 police officers including most of the sworn members employed under contract by the Australian Federal Police to the ACT government, asserted that as the most senior member of the Greens, the Attorney-General’s political ideology was being placed above the needs of the community.
“… If bail and judicial outcomes were as shipshape as he asserts, then an independent review would demonstrate that. The AFPA knows that he knows there are issues, and that they are beyond his capability to address.”
I quote from an earlier article in the Canberra Times, dated 9 September:
Mr McLuckie’s campaign has the full support of the Australian Federal Police Association which has described the territory’s sentencing and bail processes as fundamentally flawed and dangerously inadequate.
From the Canberra Times of 16 August, in an article titled “The police union has taken aim at Attorney General Shane Rattenbury after its officers were nearly run down by a recidivist offender”:
The police association has delivered its most stinging rebuke yet of ACT Attorney General Shane Rattenbury, calling on him to “stop pursuing political ideologies” and describing the territory’s sentencing and bail processes as “fundamentally flawed and dangerously inadequate”.
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