Exclusion of Ministerial Entities from Public Sector Information Records
Attorney-General and Police Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
Topics
firearm permits government appointments gun ownership information access public records public sector employment
Introduced by: The Hon Marie-Clare Boothby MLA (CLP)
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
The Debate
What different members said when this bill was debated:
“Madam Speaker, I present a Bill titled Attorney-General and Police Legislation Amendment Bill, Serial 43, and table the explanatory statement. I move that the Bill be now read a first time. The purpose of this Bill is to make amendments to the Public Trustee Act 1979, the Police Administration Act 1978, the Information Act 2002 and the Firearms Act 1997.”
Lia Finocchiaro CLP
“Madam Speaker, I deliver the ministerial report on the progress of the Northern Territory Crime Reduction Strategy 2025, notified on 22 October 2025.”
Selena Uibo ALP
“Mr Deputy Speaker, I note the title of this ministerial report refers to a `crime reduction strategy’. The term `strategy’ suggests something that is long term, but what we are getting from the CLP are short-term sugar hits, which is short-sighted when we are talking about making the community safe in the medium and long term.”
Bill Yan CLP
“Madam Speaker, yet again, the Leader of the Opposition seems to be trying to rewrite history and live in denial about the eight long years that Labor governed the Northern Territory. During that time, Central Australia faced some challenges. Crime and antisocial behaviour have left people feeling unsafe in their homes, on the streets and in our town centres.”
Laurie Zio CLP
“Madam Speaker, when this government launched the strategy early last year we made a solemn commitment to the people of the Northern Territory that we would work to restore law and order, strengthen community safety and ensure that every Territorian could live without fear of crime and disorder.”
“Madam Speaker, it is a privilege to support this ministerial report on crime reduction strategy. There are a couple of things I want to point out. I also heard the Member for Johnston talking about evidence-based approaches, getting the statistics right and looking at the long-term statistics. Let me tell you one thing, Member for Johnston, we have only been in government for 12 months.”
Chanston Paech ALP
“Madam Speaker, ordinarily, legislation should be brought to this House in a coherent and transparent manner, with each proposal standing on its own merits. Instead, before us we have a collection of unrelated documents bundled together on the basis that none of them apparently justify a standalone Bill.”
Gerard Maley CLP
“Madam Speaker, I support this Bill. I specifically focus on the firearms part. We all know that I am a firearms owner and I have been around firearms for a long time.”
Andrew Mackay CLP
“Madam Speaker, I support the Bill. As the Member for Nelson--who is a great rural resident of this parliament--has touched on already, I am incredibly supportive of the changes to the Firearms Act 1997. This Bill does not change any rules about how many firearms someone can have. It simply removes an arbitrary 28-day waiting period.”