Attorney-General – Position of Authority Offence
The offence that is introduced by your Government did not include a similar age defence.
The offence that is introduced by your Government did not include a similar age defence.
The Right to Information Act review is a critical part of that and was mentioned many times by the commissioners.
Are there additional resources being allocated to DoJ, and in particular to OPC, to achieve those deadlines?
I also recognise Jari's family, who are here today, and their fight that they have had for three years now. Without their fight, we would not be here today.
Independents and civil society have been really clear that this can only be seen as an enormous backflip by the Labor Party.
The 16 national fundraising principles are obviously supportable and bringing Tasmania into line to implement those is very welcome.
It is an antiquated offence that has no place in a contemporary, informed and just society.
The bill itself, being a consequential amendment bill, does not set out the role of the new office in any detail.
I will also start by acknowledging that this House is built on stolen Aboriginal land, the land of the muwinina people. It was never ceded.