I want to address some of the points raised on the other side of the House tonight: firstly, this idea that parents will be banned from speaking with their children and that it's stopping dialogue. The expression of religious and non-religious belief will not be covered by this legislation, and, as free speech, it's still protected. The intention of this bill is not to criminalise this conduct, but to capture the egregious example of those practices. We know that conversion practices, even when they're done or encouraged by parents, don't work, but rather, in most cases, they cause serious and long-term harm, regardless of whether they are done by parents to their own children. 