Mentions of Sensible Sentencing Trust in New Zealand Parliament debates
Sensible Sentencing Trust has been mentioned in 50 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Valedictory Statements 4 Oct 2011
LYNNE PILLAY ... many victims of crime, and also from some organisations. The messages were twofold. On the one hand, some, like the Sensible Sentencing Trust and members of the media, focused almost exclusively on how long the perpetrator should be locked away. On the other ...
Victims of Crime Reform Bill
First Reading 4 Oct 2011
STUART NASH ... relating to crime, which is where I think it becomes very, very emotional. That is why we end up with groups like the Sensible Sentencing Trust. We all want sensible sentencing—of that there is no doubt. But I do not think there are many people who say we should ...
Hon JOHN BOSCAWEN ... statements. When I think about victims and about victim impact statements, it is hard to ignore the work of the Sensible Sentencing Trust. If there is any organisation that has stood up for the rights of victims, it is the Sensible Sentencing Trust. It is a ...
Arms (Military Style Semi-automatic Firearms and Import Controls) Amendment Bill
First Reading 10 May 2011
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... populism, I would say, especially from the ACT Party and its former leader, as that party clasped together with the Sensible Sentencing Trust. But when we look at the overall issues in respect of justice—offending, the prevention of offending, incarceration, ...
Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill, Parliamentary Service Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 15 Dec 2010
Hon JOHN BOSCAWEN ... There are trade unions, business associations, and lobby groups that support a particular cause. I think of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, of Family First, and of the various trade unions. Each of those organisations should be able put out its case at the 3-y...
Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 28 Oct 2010
Hon DAVID PARKER ... and put David Garrett into the position of his law and order spokesperson, after he had taken a donation from the Sensible Sentencing Trust. He put him in that position, knowing that he had used name suppression to keep his conviction for stealing the ...
Electoral (Disqualification of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 8 Dec 2010
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... of the Department of Corrections. He was grossly attacked on the day of the Pike River memorial service. Even the Sensible Sentencing Trust crew and Mr McVicar, who has no moral authority to represent victims any more after the David Garrett affair, did not ...
DAVID CLENDON ... and that reduce crime and recidivism, despite the nonsensical extremism of vocal pro-prison groups such as the Sensible Sentencing Trust, which it seems is more interested in manipulating the victims of crimes, and perpetuating their grief and their anger ...
Second Reading 20 Oct 2010
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... We asked academics, we asked experts, and we asked ordinary people. Even that hypocrite Garth McVicar, from the Sensible Sentencing Trust—the man who gave a reference to David Garrett to get him permanent name suppression and get him off a charge—did not ...
General Debate 22 Sep 2010
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... off the tracks, the court should be sending a deterrent message.” I wonder what Mr McVicar says today, and what the Sensible Sentencing Trust thinks of him. He never revealed the fact that he gave a character reference to get Mr Garrett off a conviction, and ...
Legal Services Bill
First Reading 25 Aug 2010
DAVID GARRETT ... allocated to legal aid every year, the vast majority of it goes to criminal legal aid. I have just addressed the Sensible Sentencing Trust annual victims’ conference. I looked around that hall, recognised many faces, and knew their stories. Many of those ...
Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill 2010
First Reading 25 Aug 2010
Dr JACKIE BLUE ... through a prescription. I took some time out today and went to a conference in the Banquet Hall hosted by the Sensible Sentencing Trust. It was incredibly powerful. There was a wall of photographs of people who had been murdered—young men, young women, ...
General Debate 30 Jun 2010
CHESTER BORROWS ... overly on offenders and listening to those people who are screaming hard on behalf of them. For instance, the Sensible Sentencing Trust wants to go down a harder and harder line without being precise enough to cater to the real concerns of victims’ ...
Prisoners' and Victims' Claims (Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 23 Jun 2010
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... are not getting that. I challenge the ACT Party, because we know of the affiliation between the ACT Party and the Sensible Sentencing Trust through Mr Garrett. He was intimately involved with the Sensible Sentencing Trust. I challenge the ACT Party. I ask Mr ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... been burst. So I challenge the ACT Party member to get up and challenge his own side in the debate. I challenge the Sensible Sentencing Trust, which has not at any time—and I could be wrong; I stand to be corrected—put out a statement decrying this Government ...
In Committee 23 Jun 2010
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... biblical phrase—like lambs to the proverbial slaughter. Well, I say to Mrs Turia, Mr Boscawen, Mr Garrett, and the Sensible Sentencing Trust that those who stay silent and do not protest this injustice against protecting the most vulnerable, those who stay ...
STUART NASH ... of bread. Is that what Mr Garrett wants this country to head back to? Mr Garrett is the voice in Parliament of the Sensible Sentencing Trust. Is that not an unusual name—the Sensible Sentencing Trust? We all want there to be sensible sentencing. Garth McVicar ...
Third Reading 23 Jun 2010
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... two parties that are led by the nose like lambs to the slaughter, including the “tough on crime” party. Not even the Sensible Sentencing Trust has ever decried the fact that the National Government has cut the funding for the victims of sexual crime. I wonder ...
Corrections (Use of Court Cells) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 26 Nov 2009
SUE KEDGLEY ... thump the anti-crime drum. Their members rush up and down the country. National and ACT in particular join with the Sensible Sentencing Trust in beating the anti-crime drum, but they do absolutely nothing to reduce the causes of violence. A very simple cause of ...
Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 26 Nov 2009
GRANT ROBERTSON ... give us the secure and inclusive society that we all desire. It might make some people feel better, it might make the Sensible Sentencing Trust feel better, but in the long run it is not where our attention should be. We must be more involved in addressing the ...
Second Reading 17 Nov 2009
Hon Clayton Cosgrove ... I am not scared. Secondly, I seek leave to table a document in which Mr Garth McVicar, chief executive of the Sensible Sentencing Trust and Mr Garrett’s mentor, opposes what Mr Garrett is supporting today.
DAVID GARRETT ... to table anything from Mr McVicar, who, by the way, is not my mentor or my sponsor. I am not here as a member of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, as Mr Cosgrove has sneeringly observed from time to time. I am here as a member of the ACT Party, and as a proud ...
ACC
Accident Compensation—Sensitive Claims and Sexual Abuse 25 Aug 2009
Sue Bradford ... for counselling for victims of sexual abuse with the statement by the Prime Minister in a recent speech to the Sensible Sentencing Trust that “where New Zealanders do become victims of crime, National will give them the support and respect they deserve.”?
Lynne Pillay Given that the Prime Minister promised substantial increases in funds for victims of crime to the Sensible Sentencing Trust at its conference and that there have been cuts to prevention education from $170,000 to $27,000, does the Minister ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 26 May 2009
SUE BRADFORD ... of this blitzkrieg on crime, the Housing New Zealand Corporation is being increasingly used as a way of winning the Sensible Sentencing Trust vote. The question of so-called problematic tenants was raised many times by National MPs under the previous ...
Legal Services Amendment Bill 2008
Third Reading 10 Dec 2009
JACINDA ARDERN ... the privilege of working for the Hon Phil Goff when he was Minister of Justice, and I recall that at that time the Sensible Sentencing Trust was just beginning to emerge as an advocacy body in New Zealand. Since that body has begun to grow, it has highlighted ...
First Reading 2 Apr 2009
DAVID GARRETT ... for them before the Parole Board. I was there pro bono for the victims and because of my own association with the Sensible Sentencing Trust. I suppose that technically the family were not my clients, as I was not being paid, as was the case with the Hon ...
Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Bill
Second Reading 4 Mar 2009
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... not what they wore. Now for some strange reason the ACT Party, which more and more is simply the political arm of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, has decided to do a complete U-turn and support the legislation for reasons that are beyond me given the coherence of ...
Hon SHANE JONES ... as good. Rodney Hide stood in this Chamber and said he would never support this bill. Voices associated with the Sensible Sentencing Trust have said the opposite. Fortunately, the more that ACT members talk about law, order, and justice, the sooner we will ...
Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Youth Courts Jurisdiction and Orders) Amendment Bill
First Reading 18 Feb 2009
KEVIN HAGUE ... safer communities that New Zealanders deserve. We have evidence of that with the statement from Garth McVicar, of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, that an adult offender convicted of manslaughter of a young man should have been discharged because minor crimes like ...
Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill
Third Reading 25 May 2010
Hon RUTH DYSON ... the Government offers this drivel, driven by one of the biggest drivellers of all in terms of substantial policy, the Sensible Sentencing Trust representative in our Parliament, and it offers victims hope that will never be delivered on. I think that victims ...
CHRIS HIPKINS ... in favour of this bill were. They were postcards that were signed by people, and were handed out, no doubt, by the Sensible Sentencing Trust. So I am very suspicious of the numbers when the Government says that people are overwhelmingly in favour of this ....
In Committee 18 May 2010
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... a notch on the belt for Mr Garrett—a legislative notch on the belt. And Mr Hide will be able to tick the box for the Sensible Sentencing Trust and say that ACT has done the deal and delivered. The deal with the Sensible Sentencing Trust has been clinched.
First Reading 18 Feb 2009
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... out in the ether would say it is a good policy. Before the election, Mr Garrett—the former apparatchik for the Sensible Sentencing Trust and a learned lawyer—ran around this country and gave everybody the impression that the moment the “three strikes” ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... apart from some tax laws, are retrospective. Yet that genius is a lawyer. Mr Garrett was the apparatchik for the Sensible Sentencing Trust. That man has LLB after his name and, presumably, has a practising certificate. He wandered round this country and told ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... worked that out. He had written the policy, he said he had gone all over the world looking at it, he convinced the Sensible Sentencing Trust to sign up to it, and he convinced the ACT Party to sign up to it—and possibly got his place on the list as the result ...
METIRIA TUREI ... absolutely fails to achieve any of the Green Party goals in our policy. The bill is the result of lobbying by the Sensible Sentencing Trust and ACT, as I understand. There is no inherent evil in that process, but I make the point that the Sensible Sentencing ...
Sentencing (Offender Levy) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 21 Oct 2009
PAUL QUINN ...osite—particularly the last speaker—with the range of organisations that supported this bill. There was, of course, the Sensible Sentencing Trust, the National Council of Women of New Zealand fully supported it, and the Human Rights Commission strongly supported ....
In Committee 15 Oct 2009
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... Minister and the Government, then we will see whether this Minister will go to victims’ groups, such as Mr Garrett’s Sensible Sentencing Trust, speak at their conferences, and explain to victims why the Government has let them down and why this offender levy is ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... It would be very interesting to know what Government members will say when they go back to their electorates and the Sensible Sentencing Trust knocks on the door and asks why even the ACT Party does not believe that this legislation will work. Perhaps it will ...
First Reading 12 Feb 2009
Hon SIMON POWER ... the media in support of that. A couple of weeks ago, the offender levy was again endorsed by groups as diverse as the Sensible Sentencing Trust and those involved in Rethinking Crime and Punishment. However, from the beginning Labour scoffed at the policy, and ...
DAVID GARRETT ... scars, but also to further harm through financial costs. Members will know that I have worked actively with the Sensible Sentencing Trust for 5 years or so, but I am not going to do as Ms Ardern suggested members might and roll out a number of cases. I ...
Maiden Statements 17 Dec 2008
LOUISE UPSTON ... second priority is keeping New Zealand safe again. In March this year over a thousand people gathered in Taupō at a Sensible Sentencing Trust event. I saw ordinary New Zealanders demonstrating their disgust at the murder of Karen Aim. They were claiming back ...
DAVID GARRETT ... the New Zealand Herald of Saturday, 6 December. People opposed to the views of groups such as the Sensible Sentencing Trust tell us—and they probably actually believe it—that our society has become much more punitive. That is nonsense. It is ...
Bail Amendment Bill 2008
First Reading 12 Dec 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... heard him speak. I congratulate him on now being a member of this Parliament. Coming in as the spokesperson for the Sensible Sentencing Trust, he has come in with an agenda; that is fair enough. But I listened very carefully to Mr Garrett talking before the ...
Second Reading 12 Dec 2008
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... on the door. He could immediately trigger that substantive legislation. I assume that it would be supported by the Sensible Sentencing Trust, the ACT Party, and most of the parties in this Parliament. It would be supported by us, because we passed the Act. I ...
DAVID GARRETT I did—and the Sensible Sentencing Trust. I thank the member for reminding me. I am told that to accuse me of representing the Sensible Sentencing Trust in this ...
DAVID GARRETT I am a member of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, yes, and quite proud of it. In California I found that the law in that state had caused injustice, and I bent over ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... and you’re out policy”. He said he did the homework, went to the United States at his own expense and that of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, came back and did the work, and then, just before the election, found he had got it wrong—
In Committee 12 Dec 2008
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... Mr Garrett, who I am told—I ask the member to correct me if I am wrong—was at that time the legal adviser to the Sensible Sentencing Trust—
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... not apply or have any impact at all for 15 long years. That bowled everybody over, including, I suspect, even the Sensible Sentencing Trust. Maybe the Sensible Sentencing Trust might want to ask for Mr Garrett’s salary back as a refund, because then—
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... gets 5 years, and so on, eventually he gets 15 years. He had not worked that out, and he was a lawyer advising the Sensible Sentencing Trust! I am sorry but I do not accept the explanation. I suspect he is a bright guy. He has a law degree—I do not, so I bow ...
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... to the judiciary and the legal fraternity in that period. The second period relates to stakeholder groups like the Sensible Sentencing Trust. Mr Garrett touched on this in his contribution. He has been the legal representative of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... law and order—it certainly had the biggest billboards and it certainly made the most noise, in conjunction with the Sensible Sentencing Trust. David Garrett declared today that this amendment to the Act makes little difference. I can see Mr Boscawen looking at ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... first principle is “Tough on crime”. As I said before, Mr Garrett, who is a learned lawyer and who has advised the Sensible Sentencing Trust for many years, has said this will change little. The question is what, then, did the Minister say? He said: “Well, I ...
Third Reading 12 Dec 2008
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... the fabric started to fray, in legislative terms. Mr Garrett made a stunning intervention. He is a member of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, a lawyer—
Corrections
Criminal Justice System—Prison Populations 2 Sep 2008
Simon Power ... agree with his colleague Russell Fairbrother who said, when speaking on behalf of a group calling itself The Really Sensible Sentencing Trust, that common thieves, taggers, and disqualified drivers do not deserve to be locked up and instead should be “supported ...
Policing Bill
In Committee 7 Aug 2008
RON MARK ... a bit to say about the current principles and the issues of transparency, accountability, and decision making. The Sensible Sentencing Trust asked and lobbied strongly for victims to be key and paramount, and that the principles of policing be written around ...
Justice
Criminal Justice System—Minister’s Views on Rehabilitation 16 Sep 2010
Dr Russel Norman Does he agree with the comment made by Garth McVicar of the Sensible Sentencing Trust that David Garrett deserves a second chance; if so, how does that approach sit with the punitive and irrational “three ...
Justice—Government Policies 23 Sep 2008
Simon Power ... amendment bill first announced in June last year, and the Legal Services Amendment Bill, which she told the Sensible Sentencing Trust conference would be introduced in May and passed soon after, but has yet to receive its first reading?
Methamphetamine—Availability 13 May 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... is that he is supporting the Government’s position. In fact, if the member had looked at the speech I made to the Sensible Sentencing Trust, made on the same day that he made one, he would have seen the work—
Manukau City Council (Control of Graffiti) Bill
In Committee 2 Apr 2008
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... feel a bit sad that a lot of the bills we have had in the last year have been about punishment. Now I hear that the Sensible Sentencing Trust wants to tie people to chains and let them hammer away at the side of a road, and put them in tent villages. That ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2008
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... at the question of compensation for victims of crime. The reaction to these announcements has been excellent. The Sensible Sentencing Trust has welcomed the recommendations of the victims’ rights inquiry, and yesterday Victim Support applauded the ...
Electoral Finance Bill
In Committee 4 Dec 2007
METIRIA TUREI ... proposed by National members or by friends of National members—like we have seen with the Business Roundtable, the Sensible Sentencing Trust, or some of these other organisations, which have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend. What about those smaller ...
General Debate 21 Nov 2007
JOHN CARTER ... gag those people, and he has joined with the Labour socialists so that they cannot say anything. I wonder about the Sensible Sentencing Trust. What does Doug Woolerton think about their not being able to make any comment next year? They are a group of genuine ...
Appropriation (Continuation of Interim Meaning of Funding for Parliamentary Purposes) Bill
In Committee 14 Nov 2007
SANDRA GOUDIE ... “no way” to that, too. Here we have John Boscawen, who has started a campaign and is working with Grey Power and the Sensible Sentencing Trust to take legal proceedings against the Attorney-General, and the High Court has set down an urgent hearing on 27 ...
Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill
Third Reading 8 Nov 2007
RON MARK ... and thrown off the steps. Imagine if Garth McVicar did the same thing in this House. Imagine if members of the Sensible Sentencing Trust turned up here without the right authorities and chose to exercise exactly the same course of action that these people ...
General Debate 5 Sep 2007
SANDRA GOUDIE ... Government more accountable as a result—and we need those dissenting voices. They are organisations as diverse as the Sensible Sentencing Trust—
Criminal Justice Reform Bill
In Committee 19 Jul 2007
RON MARK ... 96, 97, 98, 101, 102, or 104. Mr Power did make a speech on those clauses. But National has been accused by the Sensible Sentencing Trust and by Stephen Franks of paying lip service to victims’ rights. In that the issue is not included at all in National’s ...
First Reading 5 Dec 2006
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... at all that similar issues will arise in New Zealand if a Sentencing Council comes into existence. For example, the Sensible Sentencing Trust people will be asking for a representative on the council, as will numerous victims’ rights organisations and the sorts ...
Crimes of Torture Amendment Bill
First Reading 28 Mar 2006
NANDOR TANCZOS ... Victim Support people, who supported the idea of an independent prison inspectorate. If I remember correctly, the Sensible Sentencing Trust also supported the idea, as did the civil liberties organisations and people like Tony Ellis. They said that regardless ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 21 Feb 2006
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... about that return is that the law and order policies of the National Party have been subsidised by supporters of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, so much so that—