Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety

The Hon. S.G. WADE (15:05): A supplementary on my supplementary. If I can understand the minister's answer correctly, is the minister suggesting that if the child sexual abuse, child neglect or child abuse was perpetrated by a family member it would come under 'domestic violence' and if it was perpetrated by somebody who wasn't related it wouldn't be domestic violence?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (15:06): I don't have a copy of the act here and the definition but what I am saying is it would need to qualify under the definition of 'domestic violence' and, if it did, it would be captured by this position.