Community safety and justice
The people of Johnston have told me we need to urgently address crime and fix the way we do justice so everyone in our community is safe. They want the problems to be fixed, and to know they won’t come up over and over again.
We need real solutions to crime. Ones that have been demonstrated to work, not knee-jerk reactions driven by the election cycle.
As a community justice expert, I have worked with police, community members, victims, and offenders. I know what works and what doesn’t. I've seen first-hand that there is a better way.
My Commitment
I will work with all elected representatives and move away from divisive party politics. We need to take effective, urgent action to make our communities safe now and address the root causes of crime for the long term.
What I Stand For
Stopping Crime Before It Happens
- Address the underlying drivers of violence: Invest in reducing poverty, improving education options for young people, creating employment opportunities and fixing inadequate and unsafe housing.
- Reduce alcohol-related harm: Implement supply and demand measures based on evidence of effectiveness, and require alcohol-related offenders to undertake more training and education programs as part of their bail conditions.
- Support young people: Fund community-controlled and culturally safe places for young people to stay, connect, and make positive choices.
- Increase Community Safety Workers: Hire more Aboriginal Liaison Officers and community safety workers instead of relying on untrained private security.
- Support Police: Provide proper training, trauma support, and resources so police can do their jobs effectively instead of having to pick up the pieces of decades of bad policies, or doing everyone else's work.
Working with the Community
- Community Collaboration: Work with community leaders and businesses to reduce anti-social behaviour using proven methods like community policing, youth engagement programs, and neighbourhood watch initiatives.
- On-Country Peacemaking: Support existing community-based peacemaking and fund and resource peacemaking programs to address and resolve problems within communities.
A Better Criminal Justice System
- Restorative justice: Make offenders accountable through victim-centred programs that reduce future crime.
- Increase support for victims: Including counselling, medical care, legal support, access to restorative justice, and financial assistance.
- Prevent reoffending: Use proven diversion, detention, and post-release models to prevent reoffending.
- Empower communities: Support community courts and law and justice groups with sustainable funding and real community leadership.
- Appropriate resourcing for the Courts and the Justice system so people have access to timely and fair justice processes.
Addressing Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence (DFSV)
Everyone in our community deserves to be safe, especially in their own home. DFSV causes serious harm and places an enormous burden on our frontline services including health, police and justice.
- Appropriately fund DFSV services: Properly fund prevention, intervention, and protection services to reduce DFSV. Support expert-developed plans to prevent and respond to DFSV, with a minimum of $180 million in funding over five years and ongoing.