Law Council president Arthur Moses says legal profession would be very troubled if proposal is rushed for political purposesThe government has allowed Australia’s peak legal body just 36 hours to respond to its public child sex offender register proposal, a move the Law Council has labelled “absurd”. Peter Dutton announced on Wednesday the government was considering establishing a register which could include the postcode, name and photo of child sex offenders. Reaction was mixed, but Dutton said the government would be asking for the views of a wide range of stakeholders, including child advocacy groups and legal representatives. Otherwise, there is a real risk of the register not protecting the community and it may have myriad unintended consequences. “We don’t have a national murderers register, we don’t have a national thieves register, we don’t have a national white collar criminals register,” Abbott said then.

Source: The Guardian January 10, 2019 21:56 UTC