Joanne Ryan (Lalor, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to 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.

Michael Sukkar (Deakin, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Not under your weak government.

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

We do not need to paint our state in a negative light in this chamber, member for Deakin. I think that some members in this place need to take some time and think about the way they portray our state. They need to think about the impact they are having on families. They want to talk about crime and fear, and all the time they are creating fear in people's homes, in schools and in our suburbs. I hope that those members from Victoria have a long, hard think about their tactics.