This bill therefore proposes to introduce a new, narrower offence—one for a kind of assault on first responders and prison officers when there are already ways the law can deal with a whole range of potential offending against these important people who protect our community. The established framework of an aggravating factor in the Sentencing Act also is a better way of addressing this issue, and it's good that on that point there was agreement across the House—there was agreement that imposing that a judge must have a sentence would not work in that particular instance.