THE NSW government has cut almost $6 million and more than 70 jobs from a program designed to monitor violent offenders like Terrence Leary, the opposition says.
Leary allegedly stabbed and tried to rape a woman at a Sydney bus stop on Wednesday while he was on parole for murdering a teenager in 1990.
The budget cuts to the offender supervision program meant more people like Leary would now go unmonitored, Opposition Leader John Robertson said.
"I am amazed at what this government's approach has been when it comes to monitoring of individuals out in the community," Mr Robertson said on Friday.
A spokeswoman for the attorney general's department was not immediately available to respond to the claims although Premier Barry O'Farrell earlier described the incident as appalling.
Mr Robertson said there would be even less supervision as a result of 73 jobs and $5.7 million being slashed from the Supervision of Offenders in the Community Service Group, on top of the the closure of the community compliance monitoring group last year, Mr Robertson said.
"This government's cuts compromise community safety, and the community deserves better than this," he said.
Leary, 46, was arrested on Wednesday over the alleged violent attempted sexual assault in Hunters Hill, 10 months after he was released on parole having served more than 22 years of a 24 year term.
Mr O'Farrell said on Friday the NSW legal system had served the state well but it could be improved.
He said following the Jill Meagher murder case in Melbourne, Attorney General Greg Smith had asked Corrective Services NSW for a review of the handling of serious sex offenders on parole.
Mr Smith was expected to announce shortly that the review will be headed by Justice James Wood.
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