Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

With all due respect, Minister, you have the relevant staff there, you have people from the department, yet you need to come back to me. What do you expect a member of the public to do? The minister's office, you and the department are unable to answer that question, yet you expect an unrepresented litigant to put in a search term to find a UN convention. You don't know how many articles there are—there are 54—or how many of them are relevant to a parent going through separation. Is there going to be a step-by-step guide put up on the Attorney-General's website, the family law website, that actually says to parents, 'This is what you need to do and this is how you do it,' if the Attorney-General's staff and the Attorney-General's department, who are sitting there advising you, are not able to tell you?