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

I am sure Senator Hanson when she seeks the call again will be able to give you stakeholder feedback to the exact opposite effect. What we're establishing here as we go through report after report after report—some of them bipartisan and unanimous and, in fact, heralded at the time as landmark reports—is the true basis for the repeal. Everybody agrees that it needs to be redrafted. Everybody agrees that it needs to be simplified. But the government has gone much further than that. It has been redrafted completely to remove it, so it is no longer there. We are establishing that the true basis for the repeal is an ideologically motivated policy decision of this Attorney-General.

If we could now go to the 2016 Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence—and I'm more than happy for you to ask the more than capable advisers that are in the box, who, I'm assuming, were responsible for the drafting of the legislation and, as such, would have taken into consideration these reports. Was the decision to remove the presumption a decision the Attorney made because of a recommendation in that report?