Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2023-02-21 Daily Xml

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Serial Sex Offenders

The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD (15:16): Supplementary: does the Attorney consider that legislative change may be necessary in order to clarify matters that these people should not be released?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (15:16): We are always happy to look at legislative matters and we have done that in the past in terms of when there is a need to clarify things for community safety. There was the issue of the prescribed amount to be considered for serious drug trafficking offences due to, effectively, a gap in the law, that members in both these houses very quickly acted to rectify a loophole. If there are loopholes like that in the law we absolutely always will entertain them.