Senate debates SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (WELFARE PAYMENT REFORM) BILL 2007; NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE BILL 2007; FAMILIES, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008
In Committee
Nigel Scullion NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services
8:21 pm
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.
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