Senate Environment and Communications References Committee (part 1 of 2)
8 December 2025
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Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Australian Parliament
11:49 - 13:27
Speaker 15
Yep. All good. Great. I declare open this second hearing of the environment... Senate environment and communications reference committee inquiry into triple zero service outages.
I begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land in which we meet and pay my respect to their elders past and present. I extend that respect to any aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today. These are public proceedings being video streamed via the parliament's website, and a hand... A hand side transcript is being made. If there are no objections, the committee authorizes media, as they come in and out throughout the day, to record and, photograph the committee's proceedings in accordance with the senate resolutions.
I remind media that the... That this permission can be revoked at any time, and they must follow the direction of secretariat staff. I remind all witnesses that in giving evidence to a committee, they are protected by parliamentary privilege. It is unlawful for anyone to threaten or disadvantage a witness on account of evidence given to a committee, and such action may be treated by the senate as contempt. It is also a contempt to give false or misleading evidence.
The committee generally prefers evidence to be given in public but understand the senate's resolutions. But under the senate senate... Under the senate's resolutions, witnesses do have the right to be heard in private session. If a witness objects to answering a question, they should state the ground upon which the objection is made, and the committee will determine whether it will insist on an answer having regard to the ground in which it's claimed. If the committee determines to insist on an answer, a witness may request the answer be given in camera.
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