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United Future’s Marc
Alexander today slammed the Greens “over-weaning concern” for serious
criminals who they would have driving cabs. "Can we think
about the safety of the paying public here?" Mr Alexander said in
response to the Greens’ dissenting view on a select committee report that
would ban all convicted murderers and serious sex offenders from driving
taxis, under the Land Transport Amendment Bill. "If you are paying
for public transport, you are paying for safety, and you have the right to
travel without fear that you are being taken through the back streets by
someone who has killed or molested or raped - and I don’t care if the
conviction was 30 years before. It is the proverbial no-brainer," he
said. "I don’t accept the
Greens’ ‘well if they haven’t offended for years…’ line. Shall we take that
approach with teachers with a predilection for child pornography or child sex
convictions many years before? Of course we wouldn’t - and neither should we
with the safety of the travelling public."
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