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I move to Amendment 3. Current bail arrangements allow police and courts to impose conditions to prevent reoffending or interference with victims and witnesses. But children are rarely included, raising concerns that fathers accused of rape and serious sexual offences can manipulate, intimidate or coercively control their children or their children’s mothers. This amendment would add an automatic condition that bail granted to a person accused of RASSO would prohibit direct or indirect contact with any of the accused’s children.