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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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LAW AND ORDER ISSUES POSTCARD

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (15:14): If the Attorney-General has finished, I have a supplementary, sir. Will taxpayers have to bear the cost of the Attorney-General's defence if he is prosecuted for aiding and abetting the commission of a serious commonwealth offence?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON (Croydon—Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (15:15): I have seen the card concerned. I believe it has gone to tens of thousands of households and many people have responded to express their disagreement with the Leader of the Opposition's position. The Leader of the Opposition, of course, adopts the member for Flinders' position that sending members of the Gang of 49 into youth detention is a breach of their human rights.

Mrs Penfold interjecting:

The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: I'm sorry? The response has been so overwhelming and is creating such an outstanding and useful debate that I have requested, in my capacity as the member for Croydon, some surplus copies of the card and I intend to circularise it in my own electorate—of course, in hand-addressed envelopes. I can tell the member for Stuart that, if there are some left over, I am willing to share them with him.

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