Pat Conaghan (Cowper, National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Sadly, this week we've heard about the unspeakable atrocities inflicted by a monster upon our most vulnerable—our children. Evil acts were done to them during times when they should have been at their safest. Our thoughts and our support go to those victims and to those families.

I would like to thank and offer the same support and thoughts to the investigators from the various sex crime agencies and child protection agencies. Thank you for what you do. Not only is your work hard; it is horrendous. No-one, absolutely no-one, can understand the impossibility of what you face when you walk out the door every single day. What is seen cannot be unseen. What is heard cannot be unheard.

This applies to police all across the country who are investigating these types of crimes. It is incumbent upon us and incumbent upon our communities to wrap our arms around those investigators and support them and thank them for the work that they do. Thank you.