Senate debates

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Committees

Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee; Reference

12:00 pm

Photo of Nick XenophonNick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That the following matter be referred to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee for inquiry and report by 28 August 2014:

With reference to the committee's earlier report into the review of allegations of sexual and other abuse in Defence, the accessibility and adequacy of current mechanisms and processes to provide support to victims of sexual and other abuse in Defence, taking into account:

(a) the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART) process to date;

(b) Defence's response to the DLA Piper Review and the work of DART;

(c) successive governments' responses to the DLA Piper Review and the work of DART;

(d) the desirability of releasing a true reflection of volume two of the DLA Piper report in a redacted form or by way of a summary; and

(e) any related matters.

Question agreed to.