Survivor and Beyond Abuse founder Steve Fisher has called on the Tasmanian Labor party to take the advice of abuse victims into account when considering mandatory minimum sentences for child sex offenders.
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The government is expected to table a bill seeking to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for child sex offenders for the third time in the Lower House next week.
Rumney Labor MLC Sarah Lovell confirmed on Monday Labor would not be supporting the bill.
"Our position on mandatory sentencing has not changed," Ms Lovell said.
"[The Liberals] are clearly bringing these bills before the parliament as a distraction from the chaos they are experiencing in their own party room."
Mr Fisher said he was aghast at the Labor party.
"This should be a tripartite bill and Tasmanian survivors are sick of the Labor party playing political games to further their own agenda," Mr Fisher said.
"Time and time again the Labor party refuse to respect the wishes of survivors.
"Given that the federal Labor party support mandatory sentencing we are amazed that [Tasmanian Labor] continue to reject this important piece of legislation."
Leader of the House Michael Ferguson said the government would work with all parties to get the bill through.
"We believe a person who would commit such a terrible crime towards a child should go to jail and they should go to jail for four years," Mr Ferguson said.
"For Labor to describe this as a distraction, not only does it show a lack of respect to the victims of these heinous crimes, it shows they are out of touch."
When asked why the government continues to support mandatory minimum sentences despite this being opposed by legal experts, Mr Ferguson said the Tasmanian people were the experts on this issue.
"Twice they have elected a government which made a commitment to take this action," Mr Ferguson said.
Labor justice spokeswoman Ella Haddad criticised the Liberals' plan to debate the bill which has twice been rejected by the Parliament.
"Labor does not oppose a tough on crime approach to sex offenders and has long argued for maximum life sentence for people convicted of sexual offences against a child, presumptive non-parole periods for child sex offenders, guideline judgments and renaming the offence 'maintaining a sexual relationship with a child' to 'persistent child sex abuse'," Ms Haddad said.