Senate debates
Thursday, 16 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
12:20 pm
Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source
In a definitional sense I am not in a position to provide an answer to that. I could not see how language would either aggravate the seriousness of an offence or diminish the seriousness of an offence, so in that context I would say that the answer is possibly no. But language is obviously a part of culture.
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