Tolley Anne: Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTolley Anne: Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 03 July 2014. Volume:700;Page:19215. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon ANNE TOLLEY (Minister of Corrections):I move That the Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill be now read a first time. I nominate the Law and Order Committee to consider the bill. This bill will increase the safety of the public by ensuring that offenders who pose a risk of serious sexual or violent offending are managed by the Department of Corrections. Extended supervision orders are currently used to manage child sex offenders—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! I am sorry to interrupt the Minister. Can I just ask members who are leaving the Chamber to do so with substantially less noise than is occurring at the moment.Hon ANNE TOLLEY: Extended supervision orders are currently used to manage child sex offenders who have been identified as posing a high risk of serious sexual reoffending against children after completing a finite prison sentence.Under current legislation extended supervision orders last 10 years and cannot be renewed. This presents a risk to public safety as those offenders who still pose a risk of serious reoffending after the expiration of their orders can no longer be managed. [Interruption]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order! The Speaker has already asked members for quiet in the Chamber while a member is addressing it. Remember that courtesy is contagious and we will all prosper if we keep within the spirit of the Standing Orders.Hon ANNE TOLLEY: Offenders will begin to reach the end of their current extended supervision orders in 2015. In order to ensure that extended supervision orders are used appropriately the bill will allow extended supervision orders to be renewed for as long as they are needed.The bill will also introduce mandatory 5-year reviews for offenders who have been subject to an order or orders for 10 years. To further improve public safety the scope of the current extended supervision orders will be expanded to include high-risk adult sex offenders and very high-risk violent offenders.Finally the enhancements will introduce a special condition of intensive monitoring for up to 24 hours a day for up to the first 12 months of an order. This condition will be set by a judge to give judicial oversight of the most restrictive form of monitoring on the orders. I consider that the proposed amendments strike the right balance between protecting the public from serious sexual and violent harm and the rights of offenders subject to these orders by ensuring that they have as much autonomy as possible.Extended supervision orders are part of a wider Government focus on protecting the public from high-risk offenders which includes the introduction of public protection orders. Public protection orders are the subject of a separate bill which will place a very small number of individuals who pose a very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending into secure residences on prison precincts. Although detainment in a civil residence is an appropriate response to the severe risk of harm those individuals pose there is a larger group of high-risk serious sexual offenders and very high-risk serious violent offenders who will finish a finite prison sentence but not meet the criteria for a public protection order.The changes to the extended supervision orders in this bill will complement public protection orders ensuring that offenders can still be safely managed in accordance with the risk they pose. As a Government we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable members of society. This bill will ensure that offenders who are a risk to public safety can be managed safely in the community.I want to thank those parties that have indicated their support for these changes. It is a very serious imposition on a small number of individuals that we are proposing and I have appreciated the sensible discussions with colleagues around the House. I commend this bill to the House.