Children and Health Legislation Amendment (Statement of Recognition and Other Matters) Bill 2022
Introduction and first reading
Mr CARBINES (Ivanhoe—Minister for Child Protection and Family Services, Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers) (12:08): I move:
That I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005, the Social Services Regulation Act 2021, the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005, the Commission for Children and Young People Act 2012, the Child Wellbeing and Safety (Child Safe Standards Compliance and Enforcement) Amendment Act 2021, the Magistrates’ Court Act 1989, the Health Services Act 1988 and the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, to make minor and consequential amendments to other acts and for other purposes.
Motion agreed to.
Mr WAKELING (Ferntree Gully) (12:09): I ask the minister for a brief explanation of the bill.
Mr CARBINES (Ivanhoe—Minister for Child Protection and Family Services, Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers) (12:09): The bill introduces an Aboriginal statement of recognition into the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005, providing for Parliament to acknowledge that past laws, practices and policies of forcible removal of Aboriginal children have contributed to a legacy of disconnection and intergenerational trauma, entrenched social disadvantage, marginalisation and distrust of the child protection system by Aboriginal peoples. It also includes amendments to the Health Services Act 1988 and the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005, the Social Services Regulation Act 2021 and the Commission for Children and Young People Act 2012.
Read first time.
Ordered to be read second time tomorrow.