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1. What was proposedJeremy HansonLiberal · Opposition
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   That this Assembly: (1) notes that: (a) on 18 June 2025, the Director of Public Prosecutions stated its most recent funding “falls short of the necessary long-term funding to meet the increased demand of the work of the ACT DPP”; (b) the Director of Public Prosecutions also stated “If the ACT DPP is not adequately funded, community safety is compromised”; (c) in the opening statement submission to the 2025-2026 Estimates hearings, the Director of Public Prosecutions stated they have seen a 50 percent increase in prosecution numbers in family violence and a 170 percent increase for sexual violence over four years; (d) the Director of Public Prosecutions further stated “we are asked to deliver the impossible, with a budget that has fallen significantly behind and has left us out of step with the service prosecuting agencies are able to deliver in other states and territories”; and (e) in the 2025-2026 Estimates hearings on 28 July 2025, the Chief Executive Officer of Legal Aid ACT outlined flatlining funding in the face of increasing costs and demand; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) provide the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions with adequate resources to deliver its service to Canberrans to ensure that community safety is not compromised; and (b) provide commensurate resources to Legal Aid ACT.

2. Proposed changeShane RattenburyGreens · Crossbench16 September 2025

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   together: 1. After paragraph (1)(e), insert: “(f) the increasing demand noted above has impacts across the community legal sector, and underfunded community legal centres do not have capacity to respond to the increasing demand. They are also impacted by significant funding uncertainty.”. 2. After paragraph (2)(b), insert: “(c) provide commensurate resources to other community legal centres in the ACT including the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT), Women’s Legal Centre and Care Consumer Law.”. Debate continued.

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3. What the Assembly decidedAgreed

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   That this Assembly: (1) notes that: (a) on 18 June 2025, the Director of Public Prosecutions stated its most recent funding “falls short of the necessary long-term funding to meet the increased demand of the work of the ACT DPP”; (b) the Director of Public Prosecutions also stated “If the ACT DPP is not adequately funded, community safety is compromised”; (c) in the opening statement submission to the 2025-2026 Estimates hearings, the Director of Public Prosecutions stated they have seen a 50 percent increase in prosecution numbers in family violence and a 170 percent increase for sexual violence over four years; (d) the Director of Public Prosecutions further stated “we are asked to deliver the impossible, with a budget that has fallen significantly behind and has left us out of step with the service prosecuting agencies are able to deliver in other states and territories”; (e) in the 2025-2026 Estimates hearings on 28 July 2025, the Chief Executive Officer of Legal Aid ACT outlined flatlining funding in the face of increasing costs and demand; and (f) the increasing demand noted above has impacts across the community legal sector, and underfunded community legal centres do not have capacity to respond to the increasing demand. They are also impacted by significant funding uncertaintyRattenbury; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) provide the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions with adequate resources to deliver its service to Canberrans to ensure that community safety is not compromised; (b) provide commensurate resources to Legal Aid ACT; and (c) provide commensurate resources to other community legal centres in the ACT including the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT), Women’s Legal Centre and Care Consumer LawRattenbury.

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   That this Assembly: (1) notes that: (a) on 18 June 2025, the Director of Public Prosecutions stated its most recent funding “falls short of the necessary long-term funding to meet the increased demand of the work of the ACT DPP”; (b) the Director of Public Prosecutions also stated “If the ACT DPP is not adequately funded, community safety is compromised”; (c) in the opening statement submission to the 2025-2026 Estimates hearings, the Director of Public Prosecutions stated they have seen a 50 percent increase in prosecution numbers in family violence and a 170 percent increase for sexual violence over four years; (d) the Director of Public Prosecutions further stated “we are asked to deliver the impossible, with a budget that has fallen significantly behind and has left us out of step with the service prosecuting agencies are able to deliver in other states and territories”; [taken out: and](e) in the 2025-2026 Estimates hearings on 28 July 2025, the Chief Executive Officer of Legal Aid ACT outlined flatlining funding in the face of increasing costs and demand; and [put in: (f) the increasing demand noted above has impacts across the community legal sector, and underfunded community legal centres do not have capacity to respond to the increasing demand. They are also impacted by significant funding uncertainty; and](2) calls on the Government to: (a) provide the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions with adequate resources to deliver its service to Canberrans to ensure that community safety is not compromised; [taken out: and](b) provide commensurate resources to Legal Aid ACT; [put in: and (c) provide commensurate resources to other community legal centres in the ACT including the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT), Women’s Legal Centre and Care Consumer Law.]

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