I think we differ on how we get there."He said most people on the ground working with children supported the bill."Then also the police union, who are the ones left at the end of the day to always go in and clean up the mess — they were unanimously in support as well," he said."When the frontline and carers are supporting it, that gives me a lot of confidence."Mr Howe also backed in the bill's proposed two-year limit on short-term protection orders, after which the department is no longer legally required to make "proactive efforts" to reunify a child with their family."We can sit here as adults and talk about time to try and get ourselves back together, and two years is quite a short period .. is a child who's taken into care at [age] zero and then a reunification attempt occurring at five years old," he said."That child's been taken out of the [only] home that they've ever known and then placed in a community where abuse has then occurred in the reunification attempt, and has then been brought back to their [foster] family here in town."That was a hard story to listen to, because that individual was the same age as one of my daughters. "To think her just being pulled out of our home, suffering abuse and then being brought back, and then for a reunification attempt to happen five years later at [age] 10, for it to be failed again — I think that is the system creating a very unfair situation for the child."The bill will return to parliament for debate next week and is likely to pass due to the CLP government's large majority.Find support services in your state or territory.