Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Scullion for the supplementary question. It seems to me that the debate that was occurring was about whether or not we have the evidence and what we are finding in the intervention in the Northern Territory. One of the things that the Labor government has committed to is a review, 12 months after the intervention, to assess the evidence. I was one of those at the estimates hearing—Senator Scullion, I do not know whether you were there—when people in charge of the intervention talked about their attempt to build better evidence of what is occurring on the ground: the amount of sexual abuse, who is being abused and how we combat those things. They are important public policy issues, and I think to take us down this road is really quite disgraceful. The Northern Territory intervention is committed to by the Labor government. We will continue the intervention, and all Labor senators will give their best efforts to ensure its success.