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12th May 2008  Email from Tim Herbert, Senior Policy Advisor to Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine. A minimalist reply which makes no attempt to answer any of the questions raised in my emails dated 12 April 2008 and 16April 2008. Tim’s very brief response merely reiterates that the Government has “no immediate plans to amend the existing law” – he did not respond to my request for actual reasons for their inaction.

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Attorney - SMTP

To: jvframe@ozemail.com.au

Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 10:13 AM

Subject: Attorney-General's response

In response to your recent email, please find attached correspondence from the office of the Honourable Kerry Shine MP, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Premier in Western Queensland.

 

 

In reply please quote: 506773/1  J/08/

 

 

 

 

 

Mr John  Frame

jvframe@ozemail.com.au

 

 

Dear Mr Frame

 

Thank you for your emails of 12 and 16 April about equal age of consent in Queensland. The Honourable Kerry Shine MP, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Premier in Western Queensland, has asked me to reply on his behalf.

 

As advised on previous occasions, this Government has no immediate plans to amend the existing law.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

Tim Herbert

Senior Policy Advisor