Senate debates
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Bills
Criminal Code Amendment (Agricultural Protection) Bill 2019; In Committee
1:25 pm
Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) | Hansard source
I think the Pokemon GO subscribers of the world will thank you for your detailed analysis here, Senator McKim, because you are right—in the first section of your question. However, under law, 'recklessness' is actually quite a high threshold. That means they have to also be aware of the substantial risk that detriment would occur. If they hadn't, as you said, considered the risk or considered the impact that the trespass would ensure, then they wouldn't be captured by the act.
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