Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The call to defund the police is actually a call for increased funding into social supports—things like housing, things like education, things like childcare, things that are genuine public goods. For those members, particularly senators from Tasmania, I urge you to read the comments of Deputy Commissioner of Tasmania Police Mr Scott Tilyard, reported in the Examiner earlier this week, where he said it is absolutely 'worth considering' defunding the police as long as those funds are reinvested into areas of public services which I just mentioned. So it is important that people understand the context, and this is about justice reinvestment.