Wednesday, 29 October 2025

 John BERGER (Southern Metropolitan) (12:52): (1909) My constituency question is for the Minister for Corrections, my good friend Mr Erdogan. The Allan Labor government has taken strong steps to ensure the safety of my community of Southern Metro. Whether it is the 320 new youth justice roles created by this year’s budget, the 400 new roles in corrections to respond to the tough new bail laws or the $7.4 million to boost police recruitment, the Allan Labor government has made strong investments to boost the capacity of our law enforcement and corrections systems to deal with the criminal behaviour. We are also helping rehabilitate people while they spend time in custody. My question to the minister is: can he inform me of what more the Allan Labor government is doing for my community of Southern Metro to lower the rates of recidivism and ensure adult and youth offenders on remand do not go off and reoffend?