Senate debates
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (WELFARE PAYMENT REFORM) BILL 2007; NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE BILL 2007; FAMILIES, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008
In Committee
9:00 pm
Trish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source
I am happy to table it, but it is actually a letter that was sent to Minister Brough, so I am sure it is somewhere in the bowels of the government. I am happy to table a copy of it; I am sure they would not mind. Minister Scullion, what you say reaffirms to me that these communities have been chosen for anything other than their level of child abuse. I do not know the answer to this, but I understand that, in Elliott, 12 children were identified as being alleged victims of child sexual abuse. It begs the question as to whether this government really has the objective of tackling child sex abuse when Elliott is known to have had 12 cases and yet is excluded from the mix. I seek leave to table the letter.
Leave granted.
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