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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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DRIVING RECORD

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen) (14:57): Has the Attorney-General considered whether the Minister for Youth and the Minister for Correctional Services should retain the office of justice of the peace in light of his driving record?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mrs REDMOND: The Attorney-General has made repeated public statements that hoon drivers are 'the ratbags who ruin people's quality of life' and that this government will not tolerate their behaviour. He also said:

As far as the government is concerned, a car in the hands of a reckless driver is a lethal weapon…These idiots ruin people's quality of life with their dangerous anti-social behaviour.

The Justice of the Peace Act 2005 states that the Attorney-General will not recommend the appointment of a person as a justice of the peace unless the Attorney-General is satisfied that the person is of good character and meets the requirements prescribed by the regulations. The regulations state that there is a cause for disciplinary action if a justice breaches the code of conduct for justices, which state:

A justice must not conduct himself or herself in such a way that it brings the office of the justice of the peace into disrepute.

The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON (Croydon—Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (14:58): Oddly enough, when the member for Fisher and I were working on the hoon driving legislation (which the member for Mitchell opposed), we wanted to refer to it as the hoon driving legislation, but the Liberal Party would not allow us to do that because they thought that was too vulgar—too rough for them—so we gave it another name. Upon no definition canvassed in this place or the other place does the Minister for Correctional Services come within the definition of hoon driving and the kind of infringement notices which the Minister for Correctional Services paid before he was a minister are not of the kind that would trigger an inquiry into his eligibility to be a justice of the peace.

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