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Senate Chamber (part 2 of 2)

13 August 2026

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Senator Thorpe contrasts the treatment of an Aboriginal death in custody with a Labor MP assault case and calls to end police investigating themselves, before Senator Sheldon details alleged exploitation of seafarers on Carnival ships and urges the company to sign collective agreements.

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Senators’ statements before Question Time

00:00

Policing of First Peoples; cruise ship labour abuses

00:00

One Nation — Rushy Lagoon, net zero and foreign buyers

02:35

Shoebridge — David McBride and whistleblower protection

04:40

Bragg — Nepalese-Australian engagement and political representation

06:45

Pre-question time politics — Bragg’s Press Club speech and Liberal disunity

08:14

Question Time — PM conduct, energy, tax and social policy

10:16

Question Time opening — Hume vs Wong on PM’s honesty and Japan remarks

10:16

Government defence of Tomago Aluminium deal — Wong and Sheldon

16:45

Kovacic vs Wong — PM’s gestures, integrity and Japan

22:31

Whish-Wilson vs Watt — Woodside Browse project and climate law

27:12

Ayres and O’Neill — Tomago Aluminium, energy transition and manufacturing

33:25

Scarr, Wong and Dowling — minimum tax on trusts and charities

40:08

Gallagher and Brown — National Plan on gender-based violence and systems abuse

45:11

Hanson vs Ayres — Rushy Lagoon sale, CEFC finance and carbon forestry

50:47

Farrell and Polley — critical minerals strategy, US partnership and opposition stance

58:10

McDonald vs Wong — Japan LNG supply, gas reservation and manufacturing

01:04:30

Delega and Watt — wage growth, gender pay gap and Liberal instability

01:10:07

Take-note debate — GST, tax, climate and foreign land sale

01:16:53

Take note: Dean Smith — PM integrity and WA GST floor

01:16:53

Take note: Delega — Labor’s delivery on health, tax cuts and jobs

01:21:38

Take note: Scarr and Dowling — philanthropy risks from trust tax

01:25:34

Take note: Blyth — PM’s broken promises and ‘Melongate’

01:33:45

Take note: Whish-Wilson — Browse approval under old EPBC laws and climate risk

01:38:03

Take note: Hanson — Rushy Lagoon deal, CEFC role and food security

01:43:21

Petitions and human rights scrutiny of fast-tracked bills

01:48:35

Petitions, FOI tabling and committee reports

01:48:35

Thorpe motion 585 — human rights scrutiny before fast-tracked bills

01:51:41

Adjournment — superannuation gaps, cost of living, environment and market regulation

02:00:23

Adjournment: Ghosh — superannuation for under-18 workers

02:00:23

Adjournment: Dean Smith — cost of living and Coalition economic agenda

02:05:34

Adjournment: Grogan — Great Australian Bight, marine parks review and World Heritage push

02:10:40

Adjournment: Sharma — super trustee Diversa, First Guardian collapse and regulatory scrutiny

02:15:28

Adjournment: Steele-John — housing crisis and regulation of short-term rentals

02:20:38

Senate Chamber (part 2 of 2)

13 August 2026

Senate Thu, 13 Aug 2026 Australian Parliament

00:00 - 00:34

Speaker 23

But for Kumunjayi Walker, this safeguard was refused. What a double standard. A Labor MP accused of assault is offered a fairer process than an Aboriginal man dying in custody. For First Peoples, this is about life and death. Why are cops investigating themselves?

Where is the transparency and accountability? They have a license to kill and they are not held accountable. We need to stop cops investigating themselves.

00:34 - 00:37

Speaker 2

Senator Thorpe, your time has expired. Senator Sheldon.

00:37 - 01:32

Speaker 15

Imagine being paid as little as $2.50 an hour, working up to 14 hours a day, seven days a week for up to nine months. Now imagine earning that little and still having to buy your own soap, your own sanitary products, your own bottled water because there are worms in the drinking water, paying for your employer's Wi-Fi to speak to your family back home, having hours of your own time taken away if you call in sick, being served passengers' old leftover food that gets refrigerated and reheated again and again until it gets rotten, being sexually assaulted with no one to turn to, then pressured to stay silent. These aren't conditions from some horror fiction. This is happening right now to seafarers working on Carnival ships in Australia. About two weeks ago, I went aboard the Carnival Splendor to find out for myself.

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