Events have a way of dictating responses, which is why the federal government is trying to come up with a national solution to the working with children checks.

You would have seen the horrific reports that have led to the calls for the government response. 

Attorney-general Michelle Rowland told Sky News yesterday that a national working with children checks is the first standing item on her agenda for meeting with the first law officers (a standing meeting of attorney-generals) and that there are other recommendations in the 2015 Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse which can be looked at.

(Yes, the report that is now 10 years old)

Education minister Jason Clare has also been tasked with finding solutions.  So while the government will be looking to put its agenda to work, it is also going to have to find solutions to this, and quite quickly.