Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Well, I put it in a motion for reference to a committee on a separate issue three times and the government finally saw the wisdom of that referral yesterday and supported our referral—third time lucky. So I was hoping the government would see the wisdom of it this time—third time lucky. But obviously it has not.

I would like a time frame on when this review is going to be finished. As I have pointed out on other occasions, the number of children caught up in this is likely to substantially increase as the Family Law Act kicks in. As more orders come through the family law process, now that the assumption is that there will be equal shared parenting, there will be more parents who are getting family law orders and establishing parenting plans that are fifty-fifty or within the 12 per cent. How soon can we expect government to have completed their review and have taken some action on it?