Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Science) Share this | Hansard source

I intend to be brief. The Defence Legislation (Enhancement of Military Justice) Bill continues the bipartisan approach to reforming the military justice system that has been pursued by successive governments. This bill implements a number of recommendations from defence reviews and reports, importantly to create service offences for assault and inappropriate use of Commonwealth credit cards, and it also reactivates outstanding legislative proposals which deal with other additions, which are of course routine in their nature. The bill more generally goes to the ever evolving and more open culture of the Australian Defence Force, and continues the ongoing process of reform of military justice and defence personnel administrative processes. The Labor Party will be supporting these measures.