Legislative Council

Thursday 22 May 2025

Family violence response teams

Firearms Act—Digital identification

Police—Missing persons—Women

Answer

Hon Matthew Swinbourn (Minister for the Environment) (5:04 pm): I would like to provide an answer to Hon Peter Collier's question without notice 182, Hon Louise Kingston's question without notice 187 and Hon Sophia Moermond's question without notice 205, and I seek leave to have those answers incorporated into Hansard.

Leave granted for the following material to be incorporated.

Question without notice 182

1. Authorised FTE as at 8 May 2025 – 165

2. Actual FTE as at 8 May 2025 – 177.1

Question without notice 187

Currently, people who choose to not use myID are required to undertake a manual 100-point identification process. Such persons will also have to engage in a manual application process as the only current means to use the Portal is via myID.

Question without notice 205

1. No, the Western Australia Police Force does not have the ability to search and identify cases with this specific circumstance.

2. N/A

3. There are six (6) long term missing persons who went missing at sea in the vicinity of Rottnest Island.

4. Two (2) are women.