At the conference of Ministers in Charge of Prisons, Probation and Parole held in Broome, Western Australia on 29th June 1979, a paper prepared by Andy Duckworth, Acting Co-ordinator of Community Programmes, Western Australian Department of Corrections and titled "Restitution : An Analysis of the Victim-Offender Relationship was reviewed. The Ministers decided to seek from the Australian Institute of Criminology further advice on this subject for consideration at their 1980 conference.