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.