Dave Tollner (Solomon, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will be working with the community to develop an action plan for the Karama and Malak suburbs in an effort to tackle crime. A task force will be formed and there are already several volunteers. Considering the number of incidents that take place, it might well be worth expanding the community crime forum idea to other parts of my electorate. I wish to thank the local residents in particular for their positive turnout and their keenness to be involved. I would also like to thank the local community organisations that gave up their valuable time to attend the meeting. It is very difficult to organise any sort of forum these days, and to get the sort of turnout we did that night shows that there is a real problem in the northern suburbs. But there is only one way we will solve this, and that is by working together. The federal, Territory and local governments need to work together to combat this problem simply because we have to.

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