Clare's Law

You can't feel bad for something that you wouldn't know because it hasn't been introduced into your world yet.

I didn't know about Claire's Law, but I don't actually think Claire's Law was...

I think Claire's Law happened literally just after what happened with me.

Obviously, it went on for a year and a half.

But when, obviously, I would, yeah, it wasn't around when it started and when I would have been in the, when I would have needed it.

So that's the biggest thing.

and our Christmas fair but we've been doing an awful lot of politics I guess in some ways we're not party political but in my 12 weeks we've done two submissions to the Senate inquiry on gambling advertising nice that the government's moved on that but not far enough and so we are continuing to fight for a complete ban on gambling advertising and We've done a lot of work around Claire's Law and the family violence, being able to find out if your partner has a history before you let him move in with you and your kids.

We've just put in a submission around the post office agency closing that is being discussed at that level.

And last week I wrote to the Energy Ministers asking to make sure that we have diesel security for we're about to have a bumper crop here in Australia.

It's a name.

Claire's law.

Yes.

I

it's like Hannah's law.

Yes.

Anyways, it's Claire's law where you can ask law enforcement to look up.

If they have any prior, whatever.

And as we know, that is absolutely not what happened.

The other thing that I really saw that I didn't like, and that initially I thought was a bit of a police play, was when, as viewers, we saw the police interview with Wade, who I think she thought was called Steven at the time as well.

And I thought the police was being, and I thought it was a strategy of kind of getting alongside the person that was accused of the crime to then make them say something which could then be used in evidence against them.

didn't seem to be the case.

It's not about the isolated communications.

It's about the pattern of behavior throughout the relationship." And Clare's Law, which is the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme I applied for, and I knew- He had a caution.

I knew that my son had given a statement to the police, and it still took ages, and it came back with absolutely nothing on it.

And as a result, I've become very close to Carol Witcher, who is Clare Wood's aunt, who the law was named after.

And Carol, she's a wonderful lady.

She lives in Scotland, and she's basically helped the police task and said, "You've got six months.

Start using AI." Iris isn't AI, but she said, "You need to start using this to make Clare's Law effective," because at the moment it's operated, there's 43 police forces in the UK.

Only a handful have started using software to store data and process it.