Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

In relation to the comments made by Bravehearts, I cannot say that I have personally seen those. I do understand that the Attorney-General may have seen those. I can take that part of the question on notice and see what additional comment the Attorney-General may have in respect of those particular comments.

As I outlined earlier, this government is looking at reforms to further strengthen Commonwealth child sex offence laws. I think it is clear that there is great concern in the community, particularly around those issues of sexual activity committed online. It is one of those areas where this government has committed to looking very seriously at how we can deal with additional measures. We want to do it in a comprehensive way to ensure that the community is protected from the perpetrators of these quite heinous crimes against children. The government has released a consultative paper dealing with those areas that we have talked about and looked at— (Time expired)