Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for confirming that, in fact, there will be nothing in legislation that prevents a control order from being issued that would result in a child not being able to attend school, or result in a child being separated from their family. At the risk of peeling off the bandaid, perhaps I can just offer gratuitous advice, in terms of explanatory memoranda, that care be taken to ensure that a memorandum does accurately reflect the legislation. To be frank, I do not think the legislation can sustain the claim in the explanatory memorandum that a child will not be separated from family and will be able to attend school, which is in fact what the EM states.