Michael Sukkar (Deakin, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Moreton believes that someone who has distributed child abuse material, who's sitting in a jail right now, should get a fast-track application. That's what the member for Moreton is arguing. That's what the government is arguing.

Ultimately, we are moving this amendment to plead with the government to see some common sense. Accept the amendment. There are a range of other worthy amendments in this bill that, as the minister outlined, quite rightly, came out of the second-year review and are in many respects uncontentious. We're ultimately going to support the bill and we will not withdraw support for the bill on this basis, but I felt it was very important that the Australian people understood what was going on here. And I wonder if the minister really didn't understand what was slipped upon her desk for signature before this came to the parliament, because I can't believe that she would think that that litany of crimes that I've just outlined are not serious. The minister carves out crimes she does believe are serious, but apparently these are not serious enough to be amongst them. It's very surprising.

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