Natasha Griggs (Solomon, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would like to let you know that my office is now an official designated safety house. A couple of weeks ago, the official yellow triangle sign was put in the front window of my electorate office. This means that children travelling to and from school who are injured, scared or worried about their safety can come into my office—a safety house. Any place where this yellow safety sign is displayed is a designated place for children to go when they are feeling worried or scared.

Currently there are only 134 safety house locations throughout the Territory. I would like to see that number grow. I think the Northern Territory police do a fantastic job administering and promoting this program. However, we need to get more people involved in the program. I would like to recognise the excellent work of senior police auxiliary officer Suzanne Seears, who has done an incredible job with this program and is responsible for us being one of the designated safety houses. As I said, I would like to commend The Safety House Program to all of my constituents in Darwin and Palmerston as well as to my fellow parliamentarians. I encourage not only my constituents but each of you here in the Federation Chamber to get involved with this great initiative.