Page 307 - Week 01 - Thursday, 13 February 2020
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police investigation progressed, ultimately resulting in these two men being convicted for their crimes.
I acknowledge the bravery of the young women involved. They should not have experienced these crimes at the hands of people within our community, but through their cooperation other young people are now safer as these men are now serving considerable sentences.
Thank you to SACAT, thank you to CYPS, thank you to all our government and non-government community partners, to the foster parents in our community. It is important to put on the record what they are doing, working together to keep young people in our community safe.
Parking—infringements
MISS C BURCH (Kurrajong) (5.21): I am disappointed that I find myself rising to speak again this week about a government minister using dirty tactics in this place to misrepresent the Canberra Liberals. We are still eight months out from election day and we are already seeing a campaign of falsehoods and mistruths from a deceitful frontbench. It would appear that the campaign strategy of those opposite for the next eight months will be one based on scaremongering and fear campaigns.
During yesterday’s debate on Mr Pettersson’s motion on grace periods for parking fines, Mr Ramsay referenced several representations the Canberra Liberals have made to him regarding parking around the territory and accused me and my colleagues of conflating a number of issues regarding illegal parking. Either the Attorney-General does not understand the meaning of the word conflate or he was being knowingly deceptive when he spoke to the representations that I have made to him. Ironically, it would appear that it is Minister Ramsay who has heard the word “parking” and decided to conflate two totally separate issues regarding parking in Canberra.
I would like to point out to the minister that making representations on behalf of constituents regarding illegal parking on median strips and verges—and on the wrong side of the road, where safety is a very serious concern—is not the same as advocating for harsher enforcement in paid parking zones. It is funny that the Attorney-General had the audacity to get up and lecture us about flip-flopping on policy positions when he is part of a government who, on the one hand, yesterday had its backbenchers advocating for Canberra drivers but, on the other hand, has a frontbench hell-bent on making it as difficult as possible for drivers, even going as far as wanting to ban cars around our city.
It just goes to show how far this tired and pathetic government will go in an attempt to cover up its well-known disdain for Canberrans who need to use their cars to get around our territory. I would counsel the Attorney-General in future to look up words he does not understand in the dictionary or to at least stop bringing his reputation into disrepute by knowingly misrepresenting members of the Canberra Liberals. This, of course, follows Minister Steel’s misrepresentations earlier this week. Just how low will this government go?
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