Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Siewert, as you read the explanatory memorandum, I hope you noted that it was ‘by or involving’. We are absolutely clear: the intent of the legislation is to protect Indigenous children. The perpetrators can be anyone, as long as the victim is an Indigenous person. If the victim is an Indigenous person, this is the trigger. It does not matter what the ethnicity of the perpetrator is. If the perpetrator is a white person then under this legislation the powers of the Crime Commission will equally apply.