Page 1802 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 4 May 2005
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a person is caught by the constabulary doing a particular piece of graffiti, then that evidence is provided to the police.
Mr Pratt: When are you going to catch Axiom?
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Pratt, you will not be happy, will you, until every household has their own police officer parked out the front of their house?
Mr Gentleman: Two coppers in every schoolyard.
MR HARGREAVES: Two coppers in every schoolyard. Mr Pratt is the bloke who wanted to have attack dogs walking up and down the supermarket aisles. This is the guy who wanted to have police going through the schoolyards with police dogs disarming five year-olds. Well, good on you, mate. Your reputation is in tatters, pal.
This government is keenly aware of issues associated with graffiti in the ACT and it has taken a proactive role through the development of the ACT graffiti management strategy released August 2004. This character across here says, “Your strategy’s not working, guys.” It is not a year old and it has still got more intelligence than you have. It is brighter and more effective than you are ever going to be and it is not a year old yet.
Mr Pratt: Maybe Axiom has got a government grant. Has it?
MR HARGREAVES: Maybe it has, Mr Pratt. Do not blame these guys if you have a problem with drawing, mate.
The strategy addresses graffiti through five key elements: prevention, removal, diversion, community awareness and education and legislation. There are 35 key actions listed in the strategy, of which a number of key initiatives are currently under way. Has this character over here ever gone to the CIT and talked to those people who were actually removing it? No. Has he ever seen the training courses these people go through? No. Does he know the law about removing things from private property without their permission? No.
Mr Pratt: I am just looking at graffiti, John.
MR HARGREAVES: He is just looking at graffiti. Where is the piece of graffiti that you pointed out, mate? It is at the back of the National Bank building. Your rich mates can afford to rip it off themselves. It is not our problem to remove it.
The graffiti management steering committee was established in February 2005. This committee comprises representatives from relevant ACT government agencies and stakeholder groups. The purpose of the committee is to adopt a whole of government approach to graffiti management and to coordinate implementation of actions in the management strategy across the ACT. We have a graffiti coordinator who was recently appointed to work with the committee to implement key actions of the strategy and liaise with young people and stakeholder interest groups.
In 2004-05 a successful graffiti art workshop program was established in partnership with Arts and Recreation Training ACT, with funding from urban services community
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