Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Community safety

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (14:04): Today I want to draw the house’s attention to the serious decline in community safety. The state government, the Allan Labor government, after 11 years in power has lost control of our streets. It is actually very serious what is happening. The severity of the injuries that we are seeing, the vicious nature of the home invasions, the carjackings – these are very, very serious situations. The state government’s pat or trite responses – I watched the Premier in her news conference just a few hours ago on the Sky Newsdirect feed. She was, frankly, hopeless, as she clearly does not get the severity and seriousness of what is going on in this state. People are frightened that their homes will be invaded, and they have good reason to be frightened. The truth is that these carjackings are just out of control. Who can forget the image of those two young kids in the car when the thugs were coming from the side? Who can forget the story of Mick Malthouse? All of these are incidents that are occurring now. The death of two young boys out in the western suburbs – this is completely unacceptable. Jacinta Allan has got to pay heed. She has got to wake up. She has lost control of this, and she has clearly has not got the heart to understand what is going on.