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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Housing Trust Site Security

Mr COWDREY (Colton) (14:22): My question is to the Minister for Housing. Will the government commit to reinstating the use of security patrols at selected Housing Trust sites? If so, when? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr COWDREY: The former Liberal government tightened rules on antisocial behaviour by reducing Labor's seven warnings to three and by ensuring that illegal activity was met with tribunal action. We also introduced security patrols at 18 sites, a measure that has been reduced under this government.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning) (14:22): As I explained in estimates yesterday, the regime is exactly the same as it was under the previous government. It's still a three-warning system—three written warnings—and we have eliminated—

Mr Cowdrey interjecting:

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: Steady. We don't want to get into another willing argument. I answered these questions in estimates, and we went through it in some detail. I undertook to get back to the member about, I think, two sites. The other remaining four sites are the result of—the program remains in place and the security patrols are ongoing; they haven't changed. All that has changed is that some of the sites that the honourable member refers to are being refurbished, and so, as a result, you don't have security guards attending the sites. For the remaining two sites, I undertook to get back to the member and I will do so.

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