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

That's right—they consent without admission. Therefore, they have been put into a position where the courts take that into consideration. If you don't have legal representation, the courts cannot accept that. So they are then protected more. I'll tell people watching: 'Do not consent without admission. That can do you more harm in the court system. You should not consent to anything.' That is the problem.

My amendment is to protect people. We have no definition of domestic violence. There are numerous types of domestic violence: physical domestic violence, coercive domestic violence and other forms of domestic violence. But this is what I said to you yesterday: if you're going to present allegations of domestic violence in a family law court then, if there is proof of it, charges should be laid and it should be determined in another court, and then it can be presented to the family law court, not just put in an affidavit or said in the court on the spur of the moment to enhance a person's case. Will you look at putting this in? As I say again, my amendment is to protect people against false allegations. A number of judges have raised this point. They need protecting, because a lot of people use it as a defence of claims that are not true or of which there's no proof.