Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Is the Prime Minister aware that yesterday his Northern Territory representative Senator Trish Crossin sought to trivialise the child abuse and neglect in the Northern Territory when she said that ‘only 50’ children had been referred to Family and Community Services so far? She went on to say:

So the dramas and the charades and the attention that was sought by the previous government in relation to child sexual abuse and child neglect, I believe, were severely overstated.

Prime Minister, isn’t the abuse of one child tragic enough—let alone ‘only 50’? Will the Prime Minister require Senator Crossin to apologise for these dismissive and contemptuous remarks?

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