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Ms LEE RHIANNON: I direct my question to the Minister for Police. Is he aware that the Newtown crime management unit has written to local residents and businesses boasting of its intention to break up the annual Reclaim the Streets Festival this Saturday? Will he give an undertaking that unlike last year, when I witnessed police using excessive force at the Newtown Reclaim the Streets Festival, this year police will at all times act with restraint and within the law, and will not be trying to please the Alan Jones law and order point of view?
The Hon. MICHAEL COSTA: Police in this State always act within the law and within the appropriate policies of the Police Service.
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The PRESIDENT: Order! I call the Minister for Mineral Resources, and Minister for Fisheries to order.