Page 736 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 19 March 2019
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Crime—shooting
MS LEE: My question is to the Minister for Police and Emergency Services. What advice or information have you received from colleagues in New South Wales about a recent drive-by shooting in Murrumbateman at the house of a senior Canberra union official?
MR GENTLEMAN: I have not received any briefings on that matter.
MS LEE: Minister, have you asked or will you ask the New South Wales government to advise you of any implications for the ACT of this incident?
MR GENTLEMAN: Yes, certainly.
MRS JONES: Minister, what involvement, if any, has ACT Policing had in investigating this crime? Has Taskforce Nemesis been in any way involved?
MR GENTLEMAN: As I said I have not been briefed on this matter from ACT Policing. I will take the question on notice and seek any more information that can be provided.
Crime—anti-consorting laws
MRS DUNNE: My question is to the Attorney-General. On 11 March this year the Canberra Times reported:
Last year bikie gangs were responsible for multiple drive-by shootings and targeted attacks across Canberra, including one on a Calwell residence in which bullets were fired into the home and cars set alight.
Further on in the article it says:
Bullets were fired at a two-storey house in Harrington Circuit, Kambah on February 4 2019 and three vehicles were set on fire outside the house.
More recently, there was a woman shot in her home in Richardson. Minister, directly and simply, will this government ever support anti-consorting laws?
MR RAMSAY: We work with the advice that we have, and the advice and the evidence that we have are that anti-consorting laws are not effective. In fact, if we are to draw on the advice that has been mentioned in different articles, can I also draw to the attention of the opposition the advice from Associate Professor Mark Lauchs from the Queensland University of Technology that anti-consorting laws would not stop inter-gang violence in Canberra suburbs.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, what is the real reason that your government will not accept these laws?
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