Page 4082 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 22 October 2019
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Transport looking at ways in which we can also say no to the objectification of women on our buses.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee
Scrutiny report 36
MRS JONES (Murrumbidgee) (10.09): I present the following report:
Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee (Legislative Scrutiny Role)—Scrutiny Report 36, dated 15 October 2019, together with a copy of the extracts of the relevant minutes of proceedings.
I seek leave to make a short statement.
Leave granted.
MRS JONES: Scrutiny report 36 contains the committee’s comments on seven bills, seven pieces of subordinate legislation, proposed government amendments to three bills, two government responses and a committee comment on the government response to one bill. The report was circulated to members when the Assembly was not sitting. I commend the report to the Assembly.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community forum on domestic and family violence
Ministerial statement
MS BERRY (Ginninderra—Deputy Chief Minister, Minister for Education and Early Childhood Development, Minister for Housing and Suburban Development, Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, Minister for Sport and Recreation and Minister for Women) (10.10): Madam Speaker, before I begin my statement today, I would like to acknowledge that we are joined by members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, alongside members from the family violence sector. I would like to thank representatives from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Group for the Domestic Violence Prevention Council, the Domestic Violence Prevention Council, the Domestic Violence Crisis Service, and other community members and services who are here with us today.
In particular, I would like to acknowledge the original contributors to the We don’t shoot our wounded and the Change our future. Share what you know reports and thank them for their courage and leadership in sharing their experiences of community, family and interpersonal violence.
Today, as the Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, together with the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Rachel Stephen-Smith, on behalf of the government we give our unequivocal and shared
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