
Socialist MP Iris Luarasi says she will demand the chemical castration of pedophiles.
She says she will make this proposal to the Human Rights Committee in Parliament.
"Chemical castration of pedophiles. I once proposed it as a civil society activist."
Now I will bring her back to Parliament as deputy chair of the Human Rights Committee.
I know there will be debate.
I know that many will be more concerned about the rights of abusers than about the lives of children who carry the trauma for life.
But sometimes society has to clearly decide whose side it stands on.
There are crimes that cannot be treated with bureaucratic indifference or with sentences that end as soon as they leave prison.
"The time for a real debate has come," she writes.