Derryn Hinch (Victoria, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Minister Fifield, representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Dutton. As everyone in this chamber knows, I've been calling for a national public child sex offender register for about 20 years. It was the passionate issue that got me into politics. I took it to the 2016 federal election. I know it resonates passionately with Australian parents.

Megan's Law has been in place in the US since 1996. I visited her mother, Maureen, in her home in Hamilton, New Jersey. I will be moving a motion this afternoon calling for the establishment of a national public child sex offender registration scheme, which I believe is a crucial and vital step in our fight against child sexual abuse in Australia, and it is a step towards publicly registering all sex offenders. My question: will the government support me?