Marisa Paterson
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Oct 15, 2026
Ben FordhamHOST
And I'm just gonna give you a little bit of a preview of this because we're going to dive into it in greater detail later on this morning.
Ben FordhamHOST
But in the ACT, the Health Minister, Dr. Marisa Paterson, has been asked why aren't we shutting down tobacconists here selling illegal products like they are elsewhere? She's explained it's because of human rights.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Is there a reason why you wouldn't close them down? Uh, we got this text early this morning from somebody who identified a, a shop in Tuggeranong that's been raided twice and each time they just reopen again.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Is there a reason, Dr. Paterson, why we wouldn't close these places down?
Ben FordhamHOST
Oh, no.
Ben FordhamHOST
Make it stop.
Ben FordhamHOST
We'll have more on the ACT Health Minister, Dr. Marisa Paterson, later this morning.
speaker_0NARRATOR
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James WillisHOST
This sounds like another country.
James WillisHOST
The ACT Health Minister, Dr. Marisa Paterson, has cited human rights considerations when questioned about why illegal tobacconists wouldn't be shut down in the future.
James WillisHOST
Here's the minister on the ABC.
speaker_17SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Is there a reason why you wouldn't close them down? I-- We got this text early this morning from somebody who identified a, a shop in Tuggeranong that's been raided twice, and each time they just reopen again.
James WillisHOST
And for every one that is shut down, the government is just doing Whac-A-Mole.
James WillisHOST
Can I just play that again? I cannot believe that a minister anywhere in the Western world would have this comment in relation to illicit behavior.
James WillisHOST
This is the ACT Health Minister, Dr. Marisa Paterson, speaking about how they will deal with illegal tobacconists.
speaker_17SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Is there a reason why you wouldn't close them down? I-- We got this text early this morning from somebody who identified a, a shop in Tuggeranong that's been raided twice, and each time they just reopen again.
Craig RobilliardHOST
A victim consultation workshop held by ACT Corrective Services in August heard participants questioned why electronic monitoring was not a requirement for detainees on transitional release in the ACT and likened the lack of strict supervision to being let out without supervision at all.
Craig RobilliardHOST
Then Corrections Minister Marissa Paterson told the Legislative Assembly in June the government remained broadly supportive of electronic monitoring, but the very high cost of setting it up had led the government to drop the commitment in this term of government.
Craig RobilliardHOST
The announcement was made in a few lines buried in a more than two thousand one hundred word statement to the Assembly, with no questions asked about the change in government position during budget estimates hearings in July.
Craig RobilliardHOST
Dr. Paterson said, p-pointing to the competing priorities this term, inc-including investments in Canberra's prison, the Alexander Maconochie Center, and a board of inquiry into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody as reasons for dropping electronic monitoring in this term.
Caleb BondHOST
They'd just pass the law.
Caleb BondHOST
I mean, how much opposition is there possibly going to be in parliament to a law that says you can shut down tobacconists or shops that sell illegal products? Well, we might have got the answer this morning because the ACT's Health Minister, Marisa Paterson, was interviewed on the ABC in Canberra.
Caleb BondHOST
She gave a rather curious answer as to why they don't just shut down these tobacconists in the ACT.
SharryNARRATOR
Is there a reason why you wouldn't close them down? Uh, we got this text early this morning from somebody who identified a, a shop in Tuggeranong that's been raided twice, and each time they just reopen again.
Caleb BondHOST
It was the first place in the country to enact a dedicated human rights framework.
Caleb BondHOST
And so every law that is proposed and passed in the ACT has to be compatible with these human rights, and every decision made by a court or tribunal has to interpret the law through the lens of human rights.
Caleb BondHOST
And so you have the Health Minister in the ACT basically saying that one of the reasons they haven't passed laws to shut down shops selling illicit tobacco is that it might contravene human rights.
Caleb BondHOST
Well, have a listen to a bit more of this interview.
Claire MurphyHOST
The ACT's Deputy Police Commissioner Scott Lea backed the laws publicly this week that would see motorcycle gangs unable to meet in large groups in public following the lead of every other state and territory that currently has a form of those laws in place.
Claire MurphyHOST
But Police Minister Marisa Paterson said the laws are deeply problematic and are in conflict with the territory's Human Rights Act that could see them used to target vulnerable populations like Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Claire MurphyHOST
The minister said they were empowering police to tackle the problem in other ways, including strengthening laws around firearms, tobacco, family violence, and bail reform.
Claire MurphyHOST
The government is also looking at banning the wearing of outlaw motorcycle gang patches or anything that signifies gang membership.
Marisa PatersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It provides an overview of their patient records, so they can see what, uh, has occurred when the patient may have been in hospital, and then can provide them the best care out in the community.
Hayden BecerraHOST
Health Minister Marisa Paterson there.
Hayden BecerraHOST
53,000 Canberrans have given their consent to use the link so far.
Hayden BecerraHOST
Anthony Albanese has denied his government has acted contradictory when it comes to inflation.