Australian Parliament

Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee

Every public sitting of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee we capture, transcribed, with the people who spoke there and a search of what was said.

35 public sittings since 18 August 2025

Sittings appear here a month after they are held. A Polyfact plan gives you every sitting as soon as it is transcribed.

How to watch the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee

Australian Parliament broadcasts the sittings of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee. Polyfact records each one, transcribes it and identifies the speakers, so you can open a sitting below, read it and watch it from the second a speech starts.

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Polyfact records and transcribes the sittings and committee hearings of Australia's parliaments. A speaker is named only once their identity is confirmed, by the official record or by a person; automatic guesses are left out.