McKee NicoleNICOLE McKEE (ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise on behalf of the ACT Party today to talk about law and order and specifically about gangs because we've found that from that side of the House we've had a lot of laws but not much order. Every day we open a newspaper we turn on the radio we switch on the television we even check our social media and we see lots of stories of gang-related serious and often violent crime in our communities. Why is this happening? Why is there an increase? I can tell you why. It's because on that side they are soft on crime. We have a Labour Government that has allowed gangs to grow at over 50 percent in numbers during their watch. What are they doing? Well let's have a look shall we. The Minister of Police Poto Williams must be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak because we don't see her out there with the front-line police. In fact do the front-line police know her name? Do they know who she is?What about the Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi? He seems more interested in locking up people for hate speech than for committing a gang crime. In Kris Faafoi's world calling someone is mean name is far worse than dragging someone out of their car and beating them to near death unprovoked. He wants to do away with three-strikes legislation which keeps our most serious and violent offenders locked up. In Labour's world the message sent to our communities is that if you join a gang and commit a crime it's no big deal. Heck you may even get $2.7 million to help you get off the drugs that that gang probably got you hooked on in the first place. But if you dare say something that Labour doesn't agree with then they'll pass a law to have you locked up. No wonder the gangs are feeling empowered. Gone are the days where you had pockets of bad behaviour that wore leather patches in your local neighbourhood. Now you see patches everywhere. They're on T-shirts they're on hoodies they're on jackets they're on faces. Lots of new laws; where is the order? The Government blames the 501s exported from Australia. The reality is that the 501s only make a tiny proportion of this growing gang problem. The truth is it's a home-grown problem. More are recruited locally. Labour promised our communities 1800 police. Good old Poto Williams—I congratulate her for admitting that Labour are not going to make that target even when the Prime Minister still won't.But it's not all bad news. You see ACT is not just a party of effective and good opposition; we have great propositions that will keep our communities safe. Rather than making police numbers a political football and making promises that we can't keep we will take the politics out of policing and increase police numbers in line with population growth. There's also a bill in my name that will shortly be heard. It is a criminal proceeds and recovery amendment bill that will allow the courts to seize gang assets upon finding an illegally held firearm when doing a raid. Does this sound effective and good to everyone in the House—yeah? Well Labour doesn't think so. They indicated that they won't be supporting it. But wait there's more: we have a gang injunction bill in the ballot box that would allow the courts to impose restrictions on gang members to curb that hunger for crime and violence. This bill would take away the power from individuals within the gangs and actually give it back to police. We can hand this all to Labour on a plate but it appears that politics not communities drive their decisions. The tide is turning and the polls are showing it. The gangs should be scared. ACT will not be soft on crime as this Government is. We will aspire to ensure that a child's best option is to get an education and to grow up and get a job and contribute to our society and the betterment of it not join gangs and wreak havoc. ACT will ensure that we have healthy and thriving communities with good laws and more order. Thank you.