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Senate Chamber (part 2 of 2)

9 September 2026

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Senator Ralph Babet criticises a 2024 Senate refusal to affirm that parents, not the federal government, hold primary responsibility for children, arguing against increased surveillance and bureaucratic power and calling to ‘put parents back in charge’.

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Question Time — grants, digital regulation and foreign policy

00:00

Opening statements and initial grant scrutiny

00:00

Senators’ statements on social and economic policy

00:00

Babet — parental authority vs federal intervention

00:00

Dowling — Tasmanian clean-energy shipbuilding success

01:01

Lambie — Macquarie Point stadium costs and health cuts

02:59

Thorpe — bill to ban shackling during childbirth

05:01

Nampijinpa Price — opposition to ‘Big Brother’ digital bill

07:09

Dolega — defending universal superannuation from early access

09:15

Question Time — grant to Marrickville Golf Club

10:04

Question Time — McGrath vs Wong on Marrickville Golf Club grant

10:04

Question Time — digital regulation, PM interests and gender-based violence

13:28

Question Time — social media regulation and online safety

13:28

Stewart Q — Wong outlines ‘My Feed My Way’ and digital duty of care

13:28

Stewart supplementary — political contest over online safety reforms

17:44

Prime Minister and Marrickville Golf Club grant — conflict‑of‑interest scrutiny

20:09

Wong notes ministerial changes; Scarr Q — PM’s golf club membership records

20:09

Scarr supplementaries — conflict‑of‑interest obligations and $6m grant

23:48

Gallagher — national response to gender-based violence

27:16

Waters Q — timing of justice reforms on sexual violence

27:16

Waters supplementaries — consent education and funding for services

31:44

Gallagher — government actions on gender-based violence

33:17

Gallagher — digital duty of care and algorithm control

36:06

Foreign policy — Australian response to Israeli settlements

39:01

Thorpe vs Wong — Australian response to Israeli settlements

39:01

Thorpe vs Wong — sanctions and illegal Israeli settlements

39:01

Thorpe supplementary — ambassador’s access to private dining room

43:10

Domestic economic, labour and social policy — trusts, Fair Work, skills and care workforce

44:36

Labour market regulation and skills policy

44:36

Economic and workplace regulation — trust tax and Fair Work Court

44:36

Blyth Q — Wong defends discretionary trust tax changes

44:36

Payman Q — Fair Work Court design and wage‑theft access

49:32

Vocational education and early learning workforce — fee‑free TAFE

55:28

Polley Q — National TAFE Day and rebuilding public VET

55:28

Polley supplementaries — fee‑free TAFE outcomes and apprenticeship support

58:17

Grogan Q — fee‑free TAFE to strengthen early learning workforce

01:06:57

Question Time — veterans’ care and early learning workforce

01:01:52

Question Time — veterans’ healthcare and early learning workforce

01:01:52

Cadell Q — veteran healthcare and $5,000 threshold

01:01:52

Grogan/Walsh — fee‑free TAFE and early learning workforce

01:06:57

Take-note motions and Senate business

01:12:30

Take‑note motions — community grants and Prime Minister’s integrity

01:12:30

Opening of take‑note motions and grants controversy

01:12:30

Deputy President — shift to take‑note motions

01:12:30

McGrath — Marrickville Golf Club grant and PM’s integrity

01:13:06

Government–Opposition clash on election grants integrity

01:17:20

Ananda‑Rajah — defence of election commitments process

01:17:20

Scarr — grants program bias and integrity concerns

01:21:24

Brown — defence of election-commitment fund and Coalition ‘rorts’

01:25:28

Henderson — PM’s Marrickville Golf Club grant and undeclared membership

01:29:41

Take-note speeches and shift to Senate business

01:33:51

Take-note speeches — violence policy and Israel sanctions

01:33:51

Waters — consent education, justice reforms and service underfunding

01:33:51

Thorpe — take-note speech on Israeli settlements sanctions

01:39:05

Senate procedural business — committee notice and formal motions

01:41:52

Standing Committee — withdrawal of disallowance notices

01:41:52

Formal motions block I — Senate business and public works references

01:43:26

Formal motions block II — cross-bench and opposition general business

01:46:43

Formal motions block III — Bragg and McKenzie notices agreed

01:50:09

Senate procedural business and non‑government motions

01:54:05

General Business motions and formal divisions

01:54:05

Formal motions and divisions on General Business

01:54:05

Gallagher — opposition to Cadell’s regional renewables review motion

01:54:05

General Business 671 (Payman) — formal motion agreed after division

02:01:20

General Business 682 (Bragg) — formal motion defeated after division

02:07:00

Hanson urgency motion and Senate procedure

02:13:15

Senate procedure — government bid to amend Hanson urgency

02:30:19

Cash — opposition to government using urgency time

02:39:19

Ruston — procedural rights of non‑government senators; division on Hanson motion

02:49:45

Senate housing debate and new Greens senator’s priorities

02:59:31

Senate housing policy confrontation — Government vs Opposition records

02:59:31

Matter of public importance — Government and opposition housing records

02:59:31

Matter of public importance — Bragg on Labor housing record

02:59:31

Walker — Labor housing agenda and critique of Coalition record

03:05:36

New Greens senator: personal background and legal advocacy

03:10:42

Personal background, housing insecurity and legal advocacy

03:10:42

First speech — personal story, housing and NDIS

03:10:42

Family violence experience and commitment to survivors

03:16:44

Transition from public interest lawyer to animal protection advocate

03:19:29

Greens senator: environmental cases and policy agenda

03:21:04

Threatened species, wind farms, fish farms and legal action

03:21:04

Native forest logging — economic, social and climate case for phase‑out

03:22:42

Greens senator — values, obligations and policy priorities

03:28:40

Senate housing debate — renters, tax and supply

03:34:05

Senate housing debate — renters, tax policy and investor confidence

03:34:05

Barbara Pocock — renters, HAFF limits and public housing demolitions

03:34:05

Dave Sharma — budget housing tax changes and investor confidence

03:39:16

Dowling vs Cadell — housing taxes, supply and investor confidence

03:44:13

Senate documents, DFV report and Online Safety Bill

03:54:04

Senate documents and DFV Commissioner’s report

03:54:04

Senate documents — committee reports and DFV Commissioner’s report

03:54:04

Post‑MPI business — committee reports, scrutiny digests and China documents

03:54:04

Gallagher — tabling DFV Commission report and digital duty of care

03:58:34

Senate — DFV Commission report responses and follow‑up

04:03:19

O’Sullivan — system failures and access to DFV services

04:03:19

Waters — housing, crisis service underfunding and prevention

04:08:18

Liddle — DFV governance and zero‑tolerance for perpetrators

04:16:02

Kovacic — DFV Commission data gaps and accountability

04:18:32

Senate takes note of DFV report; Shoebridge tables two‑state statement

04:21:05

Committee resumes — scope of eSafety powers

04:22:20

Committee stage context and Coalition’s ‘any person’ concern

04:22:20

Online Safety Bill in committee — quorum and amendment sequencing

04:22:20

Henderson — limit eSafety ‘any person’ powers

04:27:32

Coalition amendment 4088 — scope of eSafety powers debated

04:32:28

Henderson vs government — overreach and PM’s 5m accounts claim

04:32:28

Minister Green — defence of broad third‑party examination powers

04:34:52

Further Coalition proposals — algorithm transparency and parental tools

04:38:38

Henderson — distrust of assurances and push for algorithm transparency

04:38:38

Henderson — rebuttal of Tech Council and safeguards in transparency amendment

04:42:46

Henderson — opening enterprise‑grade safety tools to parents

04:46:03

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Senate Chamber (part 2 of 2)

9 September 2026

Senate Wed, 9 Sept 2026 Australian Parliament

00:00 - 00:58

Speaker 1

Now I thought he was joking, but it's not funny. I don't think he was joking at all. Now in 2024, we moved an urgency motion in this place which sought to affirm that parental responsibility rests with, guess who, parents, not the freaking federal government. Only seven senators supported it. Only seven.

Seven out of 76, just think about that. Now this, this Senate, it overwhelmingly refused to affirm that parents should be responsible for their own children. You know what parents, your kids, they do not belong to the state. You should set the boundaries. You should make the decisions.

And when government policy fails, the answer is never more surveillance, more coercion and more power for these Canberra unelected bureaucrats. The answer is really simple. Empower parents, put parents back in charge, that's it, get government out of our lives, we are all sick of this crap.

00:58 - 01:17

Speaker 2

Senator Darling. Thank you, Deputy President. Well Tasmania is less than 1% of Australia's landmass and home to barely 2% of its people. But our size has never set the limit on what we can build. A few weeks ago the world's largest battery electric ship began its journey from Tasmania to South America.

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