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

The coalition will be moving a number of amendments later in the committee stage. In the first instance I have a number of questions in relation to schedule 1, the parenting framework. I'll start with the objects and principles. I commence with the changes to the objects and principles of the parenting framework. As it's currently drafted, the act explicitly sets out just four objects. The first one is ensuring that children have the benefit of both their parents having meaningful involvement in their lives to the maximum extent consistent with the best interests of the child. Minister, why did the government decide that it was no longer necessary to make clear that the object of the parenting framework is to make sure that children have the benefit of both their parents having meaningful involvement in their lives?