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

As I indicated in my first answer, there are some existing provisions in each of the jurisdictions that provide for the term ‘unexplained absence’. That is the reason principally behind it—that each jurisdiction will have a different rationale. Some might say, ‘If you don’t have a letter from a doctor then it is an unexplained absence.’ Some may have some other process of establishing whether an absence was an unexplained absence or otherwise. We would, again, rely on that jurisdiction for that advice.