Green’s Member for Nightcliff Kat McNamara says improving integrity, creating a lobbyist register and community safety are among her priorities during the first sittings of parliament, which start next Tuesday.

She told Katie Woolf lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 12 to 10 is a backwards step and an evidence-based approach is needed because locking people up isn’t working.

Asked about whether her husband works at Inpex, Ms McNamara confirmed he works for a sub-contractor at the site and deflected suggestions it is hypocritical given her anti-gas election campaign.

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