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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Police Station Opening Hours

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:06): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before directing a question without notice to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing, representing the Minister for Police, on the subject of police station opening hours and domestic violence.

Leave granted.

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: As members of this chamber are well aware, and no doubt the Minister for Health and Wellbeing is aware, domestic violence is the leading preventable contributor to death and illness for women aged 18 to 44. Domestic violence is also often an aspect of family conflict and dispute and the subject of Family Court orders, in particular with regard to the handing over of children in the care of those people involved in that previous relationship.

My question to the minister is: when police station opening hours were changed, was any consideration given to those families that were using police stations for hand over, particularly subject to either intervention or Family Court orders and, if not, what actions will now be taken to address this issue?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:08): I thank the honourable member for her question on behalf of the minister in the other place, and I reiterate the government's strong commitment to defy the scourge of domestic violence, particularly led by the Hon. Michelle Lensink in this chamber and the Hon. Carolyn Power. In relation to the two questions the honourable member raises, I will certainly take those on notice and ask the minister in the other place to provide me an answer to those important questions.

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