Senate debates Bills

Family Law Amendment Bill 2023, Family Law Amendment (Information Sharing) Bill 2023; In Committee


Michaelia Cash

Michaelia Cash WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

12:37 pm

With all due respect, Minister, you have the relevant staff there, you have people from the department, yet you need to come back to me. What do you expect a member of the public to do? The minister's office, you and the department are unable to answer that question, yet you expect an unrepresented litigant to put in a search term to find a UN convention. You don't know how many articles there are—there are 54—or how many of them are relevant to a parent going through separation. Is there going to be a step-by-step guide put up on the Attorney-General's website, the family law website, that actually says to parents, 'This is what you need to do and this is how you do it,' if the Attorney-General's staff and the Attorney-General's department, who are sitting there advising you, are not able to tell you?

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