On 24 May 2007 the Coalition circulated to all members of the Legislative Assembly a detailed submission critical of a number of aspects of the Corrections Management Bill. Read the summary here and the full submission here.

The Assembly passed the Bill with some amendments. It became the Corrections Management Act 2007.

The most significant amendment was to what is now s.21 providing for the chief executive of the Health Department to appoint the prison doctor. The Coalition had proposed that similar arrangements that now apply to the doctor, should also be made for nurses and other medical professionals who have a role in maintenance of health treatment in the prison.

The enacted legislation incorporate only a small part of what the Coalition sought.