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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 357 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 26 May 2020 by Mr P.A. Katsambanis

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

DANGEROUS SEXUAL OFFENDERS — ROWLAN KIM PAUL

357. Mr P.A. KATSAMBANIS to the Attorney General:

I have a supplementary question. Given the appalling sex attacks by dangerous sex predators like Mr Paul and Nicholas Rodney McDonald, or Faulkner, as he now prefers to be called, how are increases in community fears about sexual assaults allayed in the government's much-vaunted Metronet railway system?

The SPEAKER: That is a long bow there. The system will call you to order if you do it again.

Mr J.R. QUIGLEY replied:

With respect, I do not see the relevance of the question.

The SPEAKER: No, you do not have to answer that part of the question, because it was not relevant.

Mr J.R. QUIGLEY: I will not deal with it.

There is always community concern about dangerous sex offenders, and I will make this note: just before the McGowan Labor government was elected to power, there were 25 dangerous sex offenders out in the community under supervision. We changed the laws around dangerous sex offenders, reversing the onus of proof, and that number has now reduced by 20 per cent. There are now only 20 of them released into the community on supervision orders.