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Bail Conditions

The Hon. C. BONAROS (15:17): Supplementary: does the Attorney accept that the court is well placed to consider those conditions when it comes to minors in their employment arrangements with individuals who have been charged with child sex offences?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (15:17): I thank the honourable member for her question. The issue she raised is one that she commendably agitates occasionally, including a press release with the friends of many in this chamber, the SDA, that was put out last week.

It is certainly something we are actively considering and have been as a government, but considering it holistically, looking at not just what the conditions of people who might be working with children are in terms of if they are on bail for serious child sex offences but those who may have been sentenced as well. It is an important issue and I think in our last sitting week, as I told the chamber, we are committed to and we certainly remain committed and it is something that, just in the weeks since we last met, there has been further work that the government has been doing on it.

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