Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I wanted to take you back to what I was asking you earlier with regard to the new evidence. I refer to that where there is any new material. That concerns me. Do you understand which paragraph I'm at—whether there is any new material available that was not available to the court that made the final parenting order? I'm going back to that because, after a case has been settled, what if there has been something that's happened, perhaps with domestic violence, in that period of time? By taking the word 'new' out, you're not allowing them to bring new evidence to the court; it has to be based on evidence they had previously in court because you've taken out the word 'new'. I don't understand—if you can please clarify this for me—why you have taken out 'new'. If the case is a year or two old, or even a few months old, if anything has happened, what evidence are you going to limit them to presenting to the courts again because circumstances may have changed?