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Mrs IRWIN (9:47 AM)
—Last week, press reports made claims that the New South Wales Indochina Chinese Association had provided food for a lunar New Year party conducted at Long Bay jail at the request of Phuong Ngo, the man convicted of the murder of Cabramatta MP John Newman. The association is based at Canley Vale in my electorate. The reports also claimed that the association received federal government funding of $100,000. The Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs announced that a departmental inquiry would be conducted into the claims that the association had used government funding to supply food for the function.
It has been brought to my attention that the request, in fact, came from an officer of the New South Wales Department of Corrective Services. In a fax message to the association, the manager of inmate services and programs made the request on behalf of the Asian committee at Long Bay. The fax message was attached to the letterhead of the New South Wales Department of Corrective Services, Metropolitan Medical and Transit Centre. The request mentioned that the committee raised funds which are donated to charity and pointed out that last year $900 was donated to the Spastic Centre of New South Wales. The New South Wales Indochina Chinese Association responded to the request saying:
It is with pleasure that the ICCA have been invited to contribute to the celebrations on the 21th (st), as it also will help raise funds for charitable causes.
The ICCA later advised that it had arranged for food to be supplied by the Sea Treasure restaurant at Crows Nest. The association is most upset that its reputation has been called into question in this way. In a statement the president of the association, Mr To Ha Huynh OAM, stressed:
We notified Corrective Services that a restaurant had been identified to provide food and that the department could organise to pick up the food themselves. I did not sign any cheque and no money from the ICCA was used to pay for the food.
Mr Huynh also pointed out:
In this case we facilitated contributions from individuals and groups but no ICCA funds were used.
I hope that the inquiry is carried out quickly and fairly and clarifies the role of community organisations in the area of rehabilitation of convicted persons. As the ICCA president has stated:
Our association was happy to be able to assist the rehabilitation of inmates and we are now at a loss to know how we should treat future requests from the Department of Corrective Services.
The minister might provide some guidelines for organisations such as the New South Wales Indochina Chinese Association for its future work in this area. In the short time I have, I would like to have on the public record that the Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales, Kerry Chikarovski, has also visited Long Bay jail on a number of occasions.