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
7:40 pm
Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source
I am advised that these powers will be used to protect Indigenous children and I am not suggesting that anything else in your submission would occur. As I understand it, the powers provided to the Crime Commission would be for the purpose of looking at perpetrators. I am advised that the perpetrators are not divided into any block of ethnicity by intent. The powers that the commission have been provided with under this legislation would provide them with the power to investigate perpetrators, whether the perpetrators were white or otherwise.
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