Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2025

Senator SHOEBRIDGE (New South Wales) (13:25): To be clear about the protective measures in this bill, the protective measures in the bill only require—and I'm reading here from the proposed 38MA(3), 38MA(4) and 38MA(5)—the AFP minister to get advice from the human services secretary, as I read it, if the AFP minister is aware of a person's dependants. Is that how it works—that it's only if the police are aware of dependants that the advice from human services is actually mandatory?

If so, it leaves the problem of how the AFP is going to be aware of a woman's dependants.