Logie Jan; Tisch LindsayJAN LOGIE (Green): It is a pleasure to rise to speak in this the debate on the third reading of the Coroners Amendment Bill for the Green Party. The Green Party as previously stated by my colleague David Clendon will be supporting this bill. I would like to spend the time in my contribution firstly as with other members acknowledging the people who shared their personal experiences with the Justice and Electoral Committee. Grief is a very significant thing to share and I think when people make that effort and the effort is in the hopes of helping produce good public policy we should acknowledge them for that effort. I would like to talk mostly on the points about deaths within prison and youth suicide reporting and to acknowledge the work of the select committee in making the improvements to the bill specifically relating to deaths in prison. My understanding of the bill as it was first introduced is that it would have meant that the coroner could demand an inquiry for a death in prison only if the coroner was satisfied that there had been some negligence or misconduct which really presupposes the outcome of the inquiry at the beginning of the process. It was really good to see that the committee has worked through that problem and shifted the presumption to the other way round. Now the coroner is enabled to use their judgment to decide whether they could have reasonably expected the death given the knowledge that they have of that person's health status and health records. Initially obviously we had concerns about the change. My colleague Dave Clendon spoke with several coroners it is my understanding and they spoke to him about the changing demographics in our prisons and the fact that we have an increasingly ageing population in our prisons so as a result people are more likely to be dying of natural causes. That should not take up the resources of the coroner whose time should not be spent on inquiring into natural deaths. It does for me raise a question that is a bit of a sad indictment on us as a society though I do have to acknowledge. The thought of somebody dying of age-related diseases while in prison or dying of cancer while in prison when we have known that that is going to happen does seem to me to be an extra level of punishment that is not necessary in terms of ensuring the security of our society. The other point I would like to speak on which has been widely canvassed is the consideration of the reporting of youth suicide. I know that there has been a call from a lot of parents as well as the media about wanting more liberalisation. There is a sense that at times we are stifling an acknowledgment of how big a problem this is in our society. When we do have one of the highest rates of youth suicide in the world and very high rates of suicide generally I can understand that feeling from people who want this to be dealt with publicly. However I have worked in youth health and have a background of seeing that impact on young people where suicides are covered in our media in a fictional sense as well as being reported—and I know that that has actually directly contributed to an exacerbation of some young people's mental health issues to a point where they have attempted suicide on the basis of that trigger. I even think of my experience as a young person spending many years feeling suicidal. Part of that was as a result of how commonly it was talked about and it was only when I became an adult working in the area that I realised that actually feeling suicidal was not normal. That is not a situation we would ever want to see encouraged in our society so the restrictions to reporting on—recognising that suicide could be a cause but not naming the place if it could identify the method or naming the method seems a sensible place to land on. Thank you.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Poto Williams—5 minutes.