Page 3025 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 5 December 1989
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critical incident stress debriefing project which assists in alleviating job related stress; the creation of the youth service officer program which will provide school liaison officers to identify and support young people at risk of experiencing homelessness, and do not challenge us on our record on youth homelessness, Mr Collaery; the child abuse assessment clinic at Royal Canberra Hospital, which will be further supported with the employment of extra staff; improved adult detention arrangements for psychiatrically ill offenders; the establishment of an adult attendance centre program to provide a non-custodial sentencing option for the ACT, and which is intended to prevent re-offending through the provision of vocational and personal development programs. I notice, Mr Speaker, that the best the Liberals could come up with of late is support for a gaol in the Territory in order that they can fill it instead of approaching the - - -
Mr Whalan: For people convicted under move-on powers.
MR BERRY: My colleague suggested that they might try to fill it with people convicted under move-on powers, but I suggest that they will try to fill it anyway, regardless of the cost to the people of the Territory. The new services also include funding for a group home for people with intellectual disabilities and for the establishment of new occasional child-care facilities at Dickson; money set aside for the implementation of the Food Act; and expansion of the women's health service and migrant health service.
I think it is necessary to record again, Mr Speaker, the opposition by the Liberal Party to any improvement of services for women. Let us make it clear and let the community be aware of where the Liberal Party and their coalition are coming from. It was an attack on women.
Mr Kaine: We don't mind you telling the truth, but that's a lie.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Order!
MR BERRY: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I heard Mr Stefaniak get up and oppose the budget provisions for women.
Mr Kaine: You said "all". What you said was untrue.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Kaine, order!
MR BERRY: Then he dropped off it when he worked out that he could not handle it. The same, of course, happened in relation to health and education. Mr Humphries could not work out where he wanted to deduct it from and then dropped off the issue when he got the wind up.
Mr Humphries: That is a slur on the staff of this Assembly, Mr Berry, and you should withdraw it.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
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