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

I want to go to—and I asked you this question before—the costs. You referred me to section 117. Besides that, under the current legislation what you've got now is the general capability of the court towards costs. What's been correctly highlighted is that you've now got rid of the fact that the contravention of orders is evidence that is unsubstantiated highlighting the fact—they can't award costs against the person. You've gone back to general capability for the costs to be awarded. By changing the legislation people who bring evidence before the courts are not going to have costs awarded for them, against the litigant. My understanding is that, by changing this now, people who have claims to make or contraventions of orders are not going to get costs awarded to them, which is going to stop this in the court system.