Senate debates

Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Bills

Passports Legislation Amendment (Overseas Travel by Child Sex Offenders) Bill 2017; In Committee

6:37 pm

Photo of Claire MooreClaire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Kakoschke-Moore, I believe my office has been in contact with you and explained our position. We also are not supporting these amendments in the form they are in tonight. We acknowledge the work you have done in this space, and we share your concerns. However, we believe that this particular bill has a focus around these sex offender registry and people travelling on passports overseas. Work needs to be done on the Criminal Code about the areas you have covered, and we commit that we will look forward to discussing these future amendments with you as soon as we can. But for tonight we are not supporting the amendments.

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