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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (29 June) . . Page.. 2250 ..
MR HUMPHRIES: It is about frightening those little old ladies into thinking that if they go out of their house they are going to get knocked over in the street.
Mr Hargreaves: You have done nothing.
MR HUMPHRIES: The fact is that they are safer in Canberra than they would be in virtually any other capital city in this country. They are safer here than they would be in any other place and you are doing a considerable disservice to your community by running around in that way, making those comments.
Mr Hargreaves: You have done nothing.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Hargreaves has spoken throughout my remarks and has not listened to a word I have had to say, apparently. All I can say is that it is a very sad day. I suggest to Mr Hargreaves that he go back and read what Mr Connolly, my predecessor as Attorney-General, had to say about using crime figures in this town. Look at what he had to say about that.
Mr Stanhope: To whom did he say it?
MR HUMPHRIES: It was advice which was very sensible and advice which, I have to say, I took.
Mr Stanhope: Oh, you took it?
MR HUMPHRIES : Yes, I did. I suggest that Mr Hargreaves go back and read what Mr Connolly had to say about that, because he had very salutary words to say about the way in which those figures can be twisted and distorted.
Incidentally, I suggest that if you examine the rate of increase of crime between 1991 and 1995 and between then and now you will find that the comparisons are not necessarily very favourable to your former government.
Mr Hargreaves: I don't think so.
MR HUMPHRIES: Go back and check those out and then come back and see whether you really want to run around holding up figures.
Mr Hargreaves: Just have a look at them.
MR HUMPHRIES: Those figures do not go back to 1991. Go and check the 1991 figures and make a comparison of how they work out, Mr Hargreaves, and you might be very surprised.
MS TUCKER
: My question is to Mr Smyth as the Minister for Urban Services. Mr Smyth, you may recall the petition presented to the Assembly this morning calling on the Assembly to support the purchase of the long-stay caravan park by the present longstanding caretaker. I understand from discussions with that caretaker that he
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