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Children’s Commissioner

February 14, 2024

Media Statement from Shadow Minister for Territory Families



This morning in Parliament, disgraced Attorney-General Chansey Paech introduced legislation that will see the Children’s Commissioner become a race-based role.

The CLP firmly believes that the Children’s Commissioner Role should be held by the best person for the job irrespective of their race, religion or gender.

The Children’s Commissioner is a critical role in protecting vulnerable children and exposing failures in Child Protection and no one race is better at doing that than another.

This Labor Government is being driven by a far-left ideological agenda that is failing to meet the expectations of our community.

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