ABC Online | WA Premier backs federal plan to use welfare payments to pay down fines ... ABC Online West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says he supports a Commonwealth plan to reduce the state's high rate of incarceration for fine defaulters. The number of people entering WA jails for unpaid fines increased by almost 600 per cent between 2008 and ... New fine default legislation could help lower Indigenous imprisonment rate says ... MP says new legislation could help cut Indigenous imprisonment rate |