The second issue that I'm very keen to get a clear sense of from the Minister is what his plan is to deal with the massive backlog in courts across the country, where we are seeing people's access to justice denied, lives on hold as people wait for years and years. We're seeing the 238 percent increase in time, since 2000, of cases taking more than 16 months for serious offences to be heard in the court: gone from 922 to nearly 3,500 cases waiting for more than 16 months to work their way through the system. We've seen the District Court times for criminal cases increase from 100 to 159 days on average—lives on hold. We've seen the High Court period extend from 340 days to 404 days. We're seeing coronial matters taking a long time to be reported, we're seeing the Environment Court—everything has ground down. 