Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for New England for his question and for his very real concern about what are extremely serious matters that have been brought to the public’s attention in the programs that he highlights in his question. He also highlights what I think is the critical issue—which the police have also raised—which is the need for people to come forward with their evidence about these terrible allegations. The police cannot act unless they have evidence upon which to act, and so I would say to any member of the public who has evidence about these very serious matters that they should bring that evidence to the attention of the police so that people can be properly prosecuted.

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