Andersen GinnyHon GINNY ANDERSEN (Labour): Oh thank you very much Madam Speaker. We're in support of this bill because victims of crime deserve to feel safe and supported. More often than not victims of an offence have ongoing fears about their personal safety or security and that can even be on a physical level and it's really important to make sure that people who say they want no contact with their offender—we know that that can be implemented. So non-contact conditions support this right. This bill does not provide any additional support on top of what Corrections already provide to ensure that victims of crime aren't further subjected to further mental or physical harm from offenders of crime.One point I would like to make is that while we support the general intent of this bill I would just like to raise the fact that when a Minister is in charge of a ministry one of the first things that they typically do is write a letter of expectation to the chief executive and that's the case quite often. So a change like this one I would've thought would've been a pretty typical thing for a Minister to stipulate in a letter of expectation to the chief executive in terms of the types of processes that they expect to be followed. So while I think it's a great idea I don't know if legislation is necessarily the right pathway. It's great that you're going to take a belts and braces approach to this but it would be something that would typically be covered off in a letter of expectation from a Minister to the ministry to outline what should be happening.What this bill does is it creates a legal obligation if it goes ahead and is amended on the chief executive and on prison managers to protect those who are the subject of a protection order and victims of crime from contact from prisoners. So we really look forward—I assume it will come to the Justice Committee if it passes its first reading and we look forward to receiving that at the Justice Committee to hear directly from Corrections what their current approach is how they can strengthen that and how we can make sure this bill works in the best way possible.This bill ensures that victims and others who are subject to a protection order under the Family Violence Act are protected from unwanted communications from prisoners and this is important work. It's important to note that when you talk a big game on getting tough in these areas it's also really important that there is funding in place to make sure that this happens. There's already been a statement made in terms of Corrections that there will be increased availability of rehabilitation while at the same time Corrections are expected to find a 6.5 percent reduction in their overall spend. So I guess as a word of caution if we're expecting our Corrections department to be doing more work but reducing the amount of funding that they receive annually then that's not—I mean I'm not flash at maths; I didn't do great on School Cert.; I was more into other things but you can add up that if you're asking someone to do a bit more and you're giving them less money something's got to give. I question where the funding's going to come if you're asking corrections staff to do more than what they're currently doing but giving them less money to do it. This bill does what Corrections sets out to do but as I said provides no additional support.I'd just like to wrap up by saying that you know we stand strong in our record of supporting victims of crime. We know that 93000 more people accessed legal aid by increasing that threshold with further increases to come over the next two years. I really hope that that funding stays in place and it's not subject to cuts in the upcoming Budget. It's really important if we care about victims of crime that we give people access to legal aid and that there are no barriers to justice.Finally I'd just like to touch on the fact that we've increased the hourly rates of those legal aid providers and also removed the user-charge fee for people receiving civil and family legal aid. These are really important mechanisms. Also stopping that sort of litigious harassment through the courts—that's an important step as well to make sure victims of family violence are not further subjected. So we support this bill but I'm looking forward to receiving it at select committee and asking some good questions.