Mr ANDREW: My question is to the Minister for Fire and Disaster Recovery and Minister for
Corrective Services. Well-known black spots in the CCTV camera network at Capricornia correctional
facility in my electorate have still not been rectified by the government, despite clear recommendations
from the CCC and Coroner in 2016 and 2018. Will the minister give an undertaking today to ensure this
matter is urgently addressed to stop deaths and to improve safety for the facility’s correctional staff,
officers and inmates?

Ms BOYD: I thank the member for Mirani for his question. Mr Speaker, I know how much you
love numbers, so I am pleased to update you that today is my 177th day in this job and my 20th day
sitting in this place as a minister. The member for Mirani has now asked me three questions but I am
yet to receive a single question from the opposition spokespeople, the members for Burdekin and
Warrego. Well done to the member for Mirani. It is nice to know that he can conjure up a question and
ask it in this place!
It is a really important question that the member for Mirani has asked. It is a question that goes
to one of the fundamental themes of this Miles government—that is, keeping our community safe.
Safety at our correctional centres is absolutely paramount. It is one of the things the Miles government
is continually working on. While I am on my feet, I want to acknowledge that the staff at the Capricornia
correctional facility do an absolutely outstanding job. I saw the staff when I visited and was shown
through that facility. There are a number of Together union delegates there whom I have met with a
number of times to discuss their priorities within that facility and how the Miles government can best
support them. I thank them for their strong advocacy, because no-one knows better how we can make
a prison safer than those correctional service officers, and those union delegates are doing an
absolutely tremendous job. We will continue to invest in our correctional facilities and in the safety of
our correctional facilities.
I am happy to provide the member for Mirani with a specific update around the work that we are
doing at the Capricornia correctional facility. We are keen to keep supporting that front line and keep
supporting correctional facilities across the state of Queensland. We know that our communities are
safest when people who have perpetrated crimes are behind bars and are being kept there safely. The
people who are doing that are our frontline officers. We will continue to invest in them and we will
continue to invest in the safety of their workplace moving forward.
We are not a government that will cut our front line. Interestingly, union delegates talked to me
about the chatter that is happening widely across the workforce around the conversations the LNP are
having with Serco and others regarding prison privatisation if they are to form government in
Queensland. I am keen to keep on talking to them and to the member for Mirani about community
safety.
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