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Legislative Council - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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POLICE ROAD SAFETY POLICY

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:36): I have a supplementary question. Given that the minister is referring the question, can he provide details of how many law-abiding motorists are to be targeted each week to offer commendations?

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Small Business) (14:36): The honourable member well knows the background. I suggest that the honourable member reads the answer that I gave some time ago when he asked a question about police policy and refresh his knowledge. Maybe the reason why we have this problem in this state is that the other day on The Advertiser website a former Liberal candidate and JP had taken photos of himself speeding and put them onto his Facebook social networking site. We know how much members opposite love Facebook and so on. Here we have this former candidate (who is also a Burnside counsellor) snapping images with his mobile phone while driving his car at 130 km/h. No wonder these Liberals opposite ask the sorts of questions they do. They seem to have no respect for the enforcement of the law.

The opposition's road safety spokesman (Hon. Stephen Wade) is listed as one of Mr Carbone's Facebook friends. Here it is—a friend of the shadow minister for road safety has photographed himself doing 130 km/h. We have a very serious problem at the moment in relation to road safety. The toll has gone up this year. It is just extraordinary that, at this particular time, we have members of the Liberal Party suggesting that police are pulling over too many people, because that is what they are saying.

The Hon. D.W. Ridgway interjecting:

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY: The Leader of the Opposition is trying to make fun of this. He is trying to distort what the Minister for Road Safety says. Let us make no mistake about this: the shadow minister for police is accusing the police of being too officious in pulling over too many people. He said in his question how the police had exceeded targets and, indeed, I believe that one of his colleagues in the lower house (if what I read in the newspaper is true) will challenge that and try to have that policy overturned.

I think the Liberal Party needs to have a thorough re-examination of its attitude towards road safety and in particular its enforcement because, rather than the Leader of the Opposition trying to grandstand about this, you think he would be curling up in the corner, ashamed of the attitude that he and other Liberals are displaying in relation to road safety.

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