Almost two years to the day, in March 2021 we introduced the Bail Legislation Amendment Bill which would create a presumption against bail for repeat offenders and violent offenders (youth and adults), and reverse changes the Labor Government made to the Bail Act when they removed breach of bail condition as an offence for youth.
Natasha Fyles voted it down.
Under Labor’s bail act, right now, a violent offender has a presumption in favour of bail.
Mrs Finocchiaro said “My Message to Natasha Fyles today is clear, do not delay action any further with a ‘review’ on Bail, the time for reviews are long gone, back our legislation, it’s ready to go.”
“Unbelievably, Labor chose to use the first order of the day to set up a committee on vaping.”
“Today the Parliament can make real and immediate change but not under a Fyles Government who is literally shrouding the urgent issues in haze.”
With a Territory in grieving, anything less than immediate changes to bail in the Parliament today is an admission that her press conference was about urgently saving face not urgently saving lives” she said.
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