Senate Chamber (part 2 of 2)
13 October 2026
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Senate Australian Parliament
02:24 - 02:32
Speaker 1
Lock the doors. So the question is the urgency motion as moved by Senator McDonald be agreed to. The ayes will move to the right of the chair, the noes to the left. I appoint Senator Little as teller for the ayes and Senator Sheldon as teller for the noes.
07:20 - 09:04
Speaker 5
...and across thousands of generations. And we have to face up to the fact that over just 230 years, we have one of the world's worst records of mammal extinction in the world. And we are a wealthy country that can do something about that. We both have Australian Australians who love this place, who want to see nature protected. We've got farmers who want to play their part.
What we need is coordination from all level of levels of government and long-term planning. Invasive species are not something that you can throw some money at for five years. At the end of a program, you say what a great success it was and you move on to the next thing. We need sustained funding and effort in this space. At the turn of the century, 21 Australian mammals were thought to be extinct.
Today that number is 43, more than double. Invasive species like cats, foxes, and rats have likely been the most cause of more than the main cause of more than 90% of those extinctions. And 267 invasive species now affect 82% of Australia's threatened species. There's a lot of numbers that get thrown around when we talk about invasive species, but I think we need to remember what's at stake here. The the places we love, the species that have evolved here over millions of years and have just as much right to be here as we do.
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