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Question Time

GANG OF 49

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:36): Will the Premier advise which of the recommendations in the To Break the Cycle report, delivered to the government in June 2007 by Monsignor David Cappo, have resulted in reducing the crime committed by the so-called Gang of 49?

The Hon. M.D. RANN (Ramsay—Premier, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change) (14:37): Let us look at the statistics. My recollection is a 30 per cent drop in robberies in South Australia. If you look at the figures, there is a 38 per cent reduction in crime. I think that what Monsignor Cappo did was outstanding. You have just come out and said we just have to give them a hug. The Liberals believe in a soft approach: let's give them a hug; it will all be settled, but what Monsignor Cappo has said right from the start is that there are intervention points to keep people at school, and there are intervention points to break up these gangs and make sure that kids get involved in positive things like football and other areas, such as the Aboriginal sports academy, which was highlighted at the recent COAG meeting held in Darwin.

The key point of what David Cappo is about is: where people can be rehabilitated let us rehabilitate them, but where they cannot be rehabilitated let us put public safety first, rather than just giving them a hug, like the Liberals.

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