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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that, on 14 August, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse released a report on criminal justice, and made 85 recommendations to reform the Australian criminal justice system to ensure a fairer response for victims of institutional child sexual abuse;

(b) acknowledges that the report outlines a sweep of legislative and policy changes including:

  (i) reform to policy and prosecution responses,

  (ii) criminalising failure to report child sexual abuse in institutions, including information given during religious confessions,

  (iii) sentencing standards in historical cases, and

  (iv) introduced or amended legislation to adopt a 'broad grooming offence'; and

(c) urges the Attorney-General to work with states and territories to respond to its recommendations.