David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Is it seriously the case that you're rushing through this legislation and you're not able to identify what risk assessment tools you're going to be using for the purposes of bringing—no doubt, in the days that follow the legislation passing—applications to the courts for community safety orders? Having gone through this charade of rushing everything through, are you suggesting that, while it's still warm on the photocopier, you're then going to engage in some form of consultation process with the states and foreign jurisdictions to find out which risk assessment instrument you're going to use, or is the truth of the matter that you're going to be using the VERA-2R assessment tool and you just don't want to say it? Is that the actual truth? Surely you can't be saying that you're going to rush the legislation through and then sit down and consult with Albania about what tools they use. That can't seriously be the government's position. So are you going to be using the VERA-2R tool? If you're not going to be using the VERA-2R tool, tell us which tool you are going to use for risk assessments under this legislation.