Jason Wood (La Trobe, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I would like to congratulate the member for Dunkley for putting up this motion. He is a member who cares about his constituency and who, like myself, must be inundated with inquiries from people who are actually living in fear in Victoria. That is not something we say lightly, but that is the situation we now have.

The facts are quite simple. When Premier Daniel Andrews was elected, the crime rate was 7,869 offences per 100,000 Victorians. Victoria's crime rate two years later is now 8,975—

Ms O'Neil interjecting—

Now I have just heard the member for Hotham interrupt, and it is absolutely disgusting how the member for Hotham actually stands there and—

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