Page 4780 - Week 13 - Thursday, 28 November 2019
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I stress that the final paragraph in the executive summary highlights one of the clear reasons why we have done this. There is complexity here; there are some questions that neither the committee nor the Auditor-General could answer. Equally, there were issues that went beyond the remit of the committee particularly in terms of matters on which it can adjudicate. They are best left to organisations or commissions which, if they decide to look into this, are more appropriately dealt with there.
It is very easy for topics which appear, at least on the face of it, to be highly political to grab lines here and there. I appreciate that a report of this length is probably a bit of a turn-off to people reading it in full. But I encourage people to read the report as a whole in order to understand the interconnectedness of the issues at play and to not look for headline grabs.
The issue is incredibly complex and the report is the result of very careful and considerate work. All members of the committee have put our party associations to the side and looked at it as freshly as we can and we worked collegiately and collaboratively in looking at the issues for what they are. I think that it is a high quality report. I stress that it is all too easy to simply look at the fact that it has been referred to the Integrity Commission and I strongly recommend reading it as a whole.
I again thank my colleagues for the manner in which they conducted themselves. This could have been something that was very difficult and that we perhaps still could have been deliberating on if we had approached it differently. My sincere thanks to Ms Cody and especially to my colleagues across the chamber and Dr Lloyd who has probably one of the hardest committee jobs at times. I commend the report to the chamber.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee
Statement by chair
MRS JONES (Murrumbidgee) (3.57): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety. Pursuant to standing order 216, I advise the Assembly that the standing committee has resolved to hold an inquiry in the form of an evaluation of the role and performance of ACT Policing.
The committee will focus its overall evaluation on the unique role ACT Policing has in Australia, that is, as a police force which is organised and structured around the commonwealth-territory agreement to provide policing services to the ACT, reached 30 years ago at self-government.
The committee expects an emphasis in the inquiry will be on the history of the ACT community’s experience, including the experience of the ACT’s various policing ministers since 1989, with the ACT model of policing, and the development of the current agreement-based administration and funding of ACT Policing. This emphasis will, the committee expects, also focus on considerations relevant to the future of ACT Policing arrangements.
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