Friday, 28 August 2026

 Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (09:52): Recently I had the pleasure of taking Jess Wilson to meet community leaders from the South Sudanese and African communities in my electorate. Alarmingly, a young leader informed me that year 11 and 12 high school students are being trained by criminals to recruit teenagers from years 7 and 8 to commit crimes. These communities are over-represented in prisons and the Labor government’s Crimes Amendment (Recruitment of Children for Criminal Activity) – (Time expired)