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Camilla Belich: Labour Justice Spokesperson on consent laws · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: National's plan changed to sex consent laws. Getting very political
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  Speaker 1: this morning. If re elected, they've said they would change
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  Speaker 1: the law. It must be an active yes beforehand, not
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  Speaker 1: just the absence of a no.
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  Speaker 2: There are tens of thousands of people every year according
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  Speaker 2: to the surveys, who are victim of sexual violence in
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  Speaker 2: some way or form, and so this change is not
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  Speaker 2: going to dramatically change that overnight, but it is sending
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  Speaker 2: a clear signal.
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  Speaker 1: Right joining us is Carmel about its Labor Justice spokesperson,
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  Speaker 1: come a good morning, Good morning. What's the problem here?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, that is a policy that the
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  Speaker 3: Labor Party agrees with and it's something that we've been
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  Speaker 3: working on on a bipartisan basis to try and get
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  Speaker 3: introduced to the House before this election.
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  Speaker 1: Great, so what's the problem They don't want to do
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  Speaker 1: it before the election.
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  Speaker 3: They Yeah, they don't want to. So that's a real
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  Speaker 3: shame actually, and we're really disappointed about that because you know,
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  Speaker 3: not everything can be in our political system can be
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  Speaker 3: put forward in a bipartisan manner. But this been something
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  Speaker 3: that one of our committees of Parliament had been working on.
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  Speaker 3: We'd had some work on drafting a bill together and
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  Speaker 3: we'd had a briefing from the Hell and Clark Foundation
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  Speaker 3: on some research that they've done onto this, and we'd
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  Speaker 3: decided to move forward. And then unfortunately at our last meeting,
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  Speaker 3: the National Party said that they were walking away from
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  Speaker 3: it and they were going to do what they've done today,
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  Speaker 3: which is release their own policy and campaign on it
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  Speaker 3: for the election, rather than introducing it to Parliament and
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  Speaker 3: making the change.
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  Speaker 1: The justice that he receives the Justice Select committees under
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  Speaker 1: the pump at the moment. I mean, is there realistically
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  Speaker 1: room that started the election to do what it is
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  Speaker 1: you're saying they should do.
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  Speaker 3: Well. Look, I'm sit on the Justice Committee, so I'm
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  Speaker 3: well aware of the amount of work that we have.
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  Speaker 3: But the issue that the choice that the National Party
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  Speaker 3: is making is they could make a choice to join
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  Speaker 3: with other parties and get this issue on the order
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  Speaker 3: paper and that means that it gets on the order
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  Speaker 3: paper on the next member's day, it can have its
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  Speaker 3: first reading and then it will be there until after
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  Speaker 3: the election. No matter who is it means it happens.
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  Speaker 1: It's a symbolic means it means it.
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  Speaker 3: No, it means it happens. The National Party at the
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  Speaker 3: moment is saying this, this will only happen if you
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  Speaker 3: vote for us, and you know obviously and everything gets negotiated.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the way of guaranteeing it it will.
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  Speaker 1: Happen if we vote for you, though too, wouldn't that
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  Speaker 1: I mean, well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what if it's something that there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: agreement on. But you know, I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 3: but for me, I always think a bird in the
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  Speaker 3: hand are when something you can guarantee will happen is
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  Speaker 3: actually when priorities come up is much better and much
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  Speaker 3: more suited than looking at you know what may happen
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  Speaker 3: after the election.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what hope is therefore, bipartisanship in this country.
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  Speaker 1: If when you do agree on something, you can't agree
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  Speaker 1: to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's a real lost opportunity. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a shame. And you know it's not too late.
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  Speaker 3: The National Party can come back and they can support
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  Speaker 3: this bill and we can make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, good to have you on the show
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Come about labor just the spokesperson For more.
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  Speaker 3: From Early Edition with Ryan Bridge.
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