Page 4297 - Week 14 - Thursday, 24 October 1991
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MR JENSEN (4.29): I will make some brief comments in relation to this matter. My colleague Mr Collaery has touched on some of the concerns of the community and some of the needs that the community have indicated in relation to some of our younger people who, as I have indicated already today, for various reasons, mainly to do with the economy, are not able to obtain or find work. Over a period they have drifted into a life of crime, so to speak, and attempts to impose their will on other people because, frankly, Mr Speaker, they feel that they have been let down by the rest of the community. It is not as if some of them believe that the community owes them a living, but that they believe that the community has forgotten and neglected them.
Basically, it is a matter of a need to develop self-esteem. It is a matter of a need to develop the idea that they have something to offer to the community. Throughout their lives many of them have been told that they are worthless, that they mean nothing, that they can provide nothing. What they require is some sort of commitment and some indication to them by others that it is possible for them to make a commitment to society.
Consideration interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
Detail Stage
Proposed new clause 16A
Consideration resumed.
MR JENSEN: It is these sorts of people that I think my colleague Mr Collaery was referring to in relation to the need to develop some sort of program. Members may recall that when I introduced the Litter (Amendment) Bill into this house recently I referred to the suggestion that people who were involved in this sort of activity should be given the role of cleaning up the mess they made or a similar sort of mess just to bring home to them the effect that they are having on the environment.
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