Page 2528 - Week 08 - Thursday, 30 August 2007

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bill urgent. It is now time for the Assembly to impose some discipline upon itself and to set some time frames so that the passage of this budget is completed.

Question put:

That Mr Corbell’s motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Allotment of time

Motion (by Mr Corbell) put:

That time for consideration of the remainder of the bill be 90 minutes.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Proposed expenditure—Part 1.15—Department of Justice and Community Safety, $163,266,000 (net cost of outputs), $117,308,000 (capital injection) and $120,700,000 (payments on behalf of the territory), totalling $401,274,000.

MR MULCAHY (Molonglo) (10.32): I will speak briefly on this matter and, in particular, on JACS and ICRC. We have had some discussion on the Woden bus interchange, and it is worth repeating here that in the estimates committee hearings on 19 June the Attorney-General conceded that the level of security surveillance in place at that interchange is not optimal. But despite that concession he explained that this area had been excluded from those areas of immediate priority that are currently having security cameras installed.

This continues to be a troubling area within the city of Canberra and it is an area about which great concern has been expressed by members of the community, parents and young people alike. Indeed, in the last three months 35 incidents of crime were reported at Woden bus interchange, the most of any bus interchange in the ACT. It

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