Joanne Ryan (Lalor, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise today to put on the record a few facts about what is going on in Victoria and what was going on in Victoria under the former Liberal government. Day after day I sit in here and I listen to the member for Deakin, the member for Corangamite and other Victorian members denigrate our state and denigrate our young people—all in the full knowledge that a Liberal government put not one extra police officer into the force in the state of Victoria in four years. Not one extra police officer did they train or did they put into a police station. Yet now they come in here and they use words like 'gangs', trying to paint pictures of young people in Victoria who have made mistakes, who have committed crimes and who will be held accountable for those crimes.

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