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Federation Chamber

27 October 2026

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Grievance debate under government business in the Federation Chamber, with members raising issues of concern from their electorates.

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Government business — Grievance debate

16:40

Organisation of the grievance debate proceedings

16:40

Community issues in Warringah — services, safety and care

18:25

Zali Steggall — community concerns on beach safety, NDIS and aged care

18:25

Defence cooperation with Indonesia and AI industry strategy

28:25

Tim Watts (ALP) — ADF Parliamentary Program, Indonesia cooperation and frontier AI strategy

28:25

Small business costs, ATO card payment policy and trust taxation

38:32

Ben Small (LP) — Card surcharge ban, ATO payments and pressures on small business

38:32

Cyber security threats, ASD annual report and the role of AI

48:36

Basem Abdo (ALP) — ASD cyber threat report, AI-enabled attacks and SME cybersecurity

48:36

Local Kabaddi athlete Divjot Singh and community recognition

54:57

Basem Abdo (ALP) — Congratulations to local Kabaddi athlete Divjot Singh

54:57

Sovereign capability, fuel security and economic resilience

58:08

Leon Rebello (LNP) — Sovereign capability, fuel security and supply chain resilience

58:08

Climate change impacts and national response

01:08:08

Kate Thwaites (ALP) — Climate risks, opposition climate policies and Labor’s clean energy transition

01:08:08

Federation Chamber

27 October 2026

Federation Chamber Tue, 27 Oct 2026 Australian Parliament

16:40 - 16:53

I'll call the member for Blair. Is the member for Blair here? Thinking you and I might have to ad-lib, but there's no speakers. Keep the speakers coming. We don't have a speaker.

16:53 - 17:05

They're all out on the way. Wait for another minute or so. They're rushing back to the office to get their speeches to come back in. Did you want to do a surprise speech? Not tonight.

17:05 - 17:10

I'm not feeling like it today. Did you share that with us? Yeah, yeah, exactly.

17:59 - 18:14

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Honourable members, the Deputy Speaker.

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