Wednesday, 13 August 2025

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Nick McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:50): (1731) Just like my Labor colleague opposite I too am very concerned about transport, but in particular I am concerned about policing matters. This is for the Minister for Police. Recently I have taken to doing some spot checks because we do know with the state government: trust but verify. It is the old Reaganism – ‘trust but verify’. I have had to verify at a number of local train stations whether in fact there are PSOs. Well, to my horror time and again –

Members interjecting.

Nick McGOWAN: Well, there are no toilets. We know there are no toilets already because we have established that; you can spend all of $3 billion and not actually have one single public toilet. But what we are discovering now at train stations right across the suburban network is there are actually no PSOs. Despite the previous government’s policy of putting PSOs there for the safety of every citizen, young and old, this government it appears is systematically removing PSOs from train stations. That is actually out of order.

David Davis interjected.

Nick McGOWAN: It is incredibly dangerous – thank you, Mr Davis, for that. I would ask the Minister for Police to make sure that they actually reveal all of those suburbs and all of those stations that have absolutely no PSOs – (Time expired)