Malcolm Roberts's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
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date: 2026-02-10T22:05:32+00:00
items: Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; In Committee | Bills | Senate debates
items: Competition and Consumer Amendment (Make Price Gouging Illegal) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | Senate debates
items: Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference | Committees | Senate debates
items: One Nation | Statements by Senators | Senate debates
items: Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide | Motions | Senate debates
items: Housing Australia Amendment (Accountability) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | Senate debates
items: Labor Government | Adjournment | Senate debates
items: Perth: Attack | Motions | Senate debates
items: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026; Second Reading | Bills | Senate debates
items: Bondi Beach: Attack | Condolences | Senate debates
items: g86.1

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; In Committee | Bills | Senate debates
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description: I've spoken enough, thanks. I move my amendment on sheet 3634: (1) Schedule 1, item 2, page 6 (line 22) to page 7 (line 6), omit subsections 110ABA(2) and (3), substitute: (2) The Committee is to...
encoded: I've spoken enough, thanks. I move my amendment on sheet 3634: (1) Schedule 1, item 2, page 6 (line 22) to page 7 (line 6), omit subsections 110ABA(2) and (3), substitute: (2) The Committee is to consist of up to 13 Committee members and must include at least: (a) 2 Senators who are Government members; and (b) 2 members of the House of Representatives who are Government members; and (c) 2 Senators who are Opposition members; and (d) 2 members of the House of Representatives who are Opposition members; and (e) 1 Senator or member of the House of Representatives from each minority party. Note: For more detailed provisions on the appointment of Committee members, see Division 5. (3) In this section: minority party means a party that: (a) is not part of the Government or the Opposition; and (b) has at least 5 members in the Parliament.
date: 2026-02-05T13:21:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; In Committee | Bills | Senate debates
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description: Only on candidates that the government puts forward—what could go wrong!
encoded: Only on candidates that the government puts forward—what could go wrong!
date: 2026-02-05T13:20:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; In Committee | Bills | Senate debates
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description: So, as Senator David Pocock said, it's a stitch-up.
encoded: So, as Senator David Pocock said, it's a stitch-up.
date: 2026-02-05T13:20:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; In Committee | Bills | Senate debates
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description: Minister, who selects the additional members?
encoded: Minister, who selects the additional members?
date: 2026-02-05T13:20:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; In Committee | Bills | Senate debates
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description: Is that the same prime minister who took the staff of some of the crossbench, decimated our staff, actually intervened and sacked some of my staff, gutted our staff, and left the other crossbench...
encoded: Is that the same prime minister who took the staff of some of the crossbench, decimated our staff, actually intervened and sacked some of my staff, gutted our staff, and left the other crossbench alone because they generally vote with him? Is that the same prime minister? And why was the decision to have a fire sale of defence assets not run past the new committee? Surely bypassing the committee and just waiting a short while would be in the interests of the community.
date: 2026-02-05T13:08:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; In Committee | Bills | Senate debates
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description: Yes! That may serve to keep out the other parties unless the bill is reworded to protect the interests of the one half of Australian voters who currently do not intend to vote for the uniparty....
encoded: Yes! That may serve to keep out the other parties unless the bill is reworded to protect the interests of the one half of Australian voters who currently do not intend to vote for the uniparty. You're leaving out 50 per cent of the population. My amendment includes the votes of people who didn't vote for the uniparty. Minister, my first question is: why is the membership of the committee expressed in a way that would allow only two parties to serve on the committee at the discretion of those same two party whips?
date: 2026-02-05T13:04:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; In Committee | Bills | Senate debates
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description: The Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025 takes defence review from the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade and puts those...
encoded: The Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025 takes defence review from the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade and puts those responsibilities into a new joint committee on defence. I have two questions for the minister, but I want to speak a bit more before putting those questions. Aside from this leaving a rather strange committee comprising trade and foreign affairs, this is a necessary measure. AUKUS is the largest defence or infrastructure spend in Australian history. Oversight of this program is absolutely essential. There's a perception amongst the public that the submarine deal associated with AUKUS is simply too much money at a time when the public are struggling, and the government is coincidentally selling off $3 billion in defence assets to fund its profligate spending. That decision should have been run past the new committee, surely. Why wasn't it? One Nation supports the AUKUS alliance, yet more respect should have been shown to the taxpayers to explain the spend, and more oversight on that spend was needed. That is why One Nation is moving a motion today to amend the bill to include wider representation on the committee. My amendment includes a place on the committee for at least one representative from each minor party—One Nation, the Nationals and the Greens. The ALP and the Liberal Party are represented automatically. There's a perception that the committee system is not designed to get to the truth but, rather, to get to the government's version of the truth. We're seeing this process at the moment with the sham Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy, which was established to prove that the critics of net zero are all lying and need to be shut up and deplatformed with misinformation and disinformation legislation. That's the purpose. It's a Greens and Labor Party stitch-up to control political speech in the finest traditions of totalitarian regimes throughout…
date: 2026-02-05T13:04:00+00:00

Competition and Consumer Amendment (Make Price Gouging Illegal) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | Senate debates
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description: One Nation agrees with the motivation behind the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Make Price Gouging Illegal) Bill 2024. Coles and Woolies have far too much market power and they're exercising...
encoded: One Nation agrees with the motivation behind the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Make Price Gouging Illegal) Bill 2024. Coles and Woolies have far too much market power and they're exercising that power in a way that benefits their shareholders, not their customers. With BlackRock Inc. holding influential positions in the share registers of these once fine companies, rapacious greed was always going to be the outcome. The accent here, though, is on the fundamental mistake Coles and Woolies are making, which is to exercise market power for the benefit of their shareholders, not their customers. Customers have been given notice. Coles and Woolies, once trusted and respected names, are now the two most disliked brand names in the Australian corporate scene. What a fall from grace! This abuse of market power has caused customers to migrate to new options, so the market's coming to the rescue. In a stunning rebuke to Coles and Woolworths, Amazon has now paired with Harris Farm to add fresh food to Amazon. Amazon now offers same-day and next-day delivery of Harris Farm products—including meat, dairy, eggs and fresh produce—to over 80 suburbs in Sydney's inner city, inner west and surrounds. This will use specialised insulated chilled packaging via Amazon Flex for freshness. Harris Farm already had its own online store and partnered with Uber Direct for quick store based same-day delivery prior to this happening. That's the beauty of free enterprise competition. If one retailer turns a cynical and greedy operation, this creates an opportunity for someone else. And Coles and Woolies will be done. If you haven't been into your local Harris Farm, IGA or Supabarn lately, I suggest you do that because Coles and Woolies have put their prices up much more than the inflation rate would justify, and the independent retailers have not. The price difference now is almost negligible, and you still get served by human beings. Fancy that—a human being serving! A retailer who values …
date: 2026-02-05T09:25:00+00:00

Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference | Committees | Senate debates
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description: I move: That the following matter be referred to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 7 September 2026: The fatal July 2023 MRH-90 Taipan Helicopter...
encoded: I move: That the following matter be referred to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 7 September 2026: The fatal July 2023 MRH-90 Taipan Helicopter incident in the Whitsundays, with specific reference to: (a) airworthiness assessments of the MRH-90 platform and associated equipment; (b) Army Aviation compliance with the Defence Aviation Safety Regulations; (c) findings of the Comcare investigation into the incident; (d) any other investigations into the incident; (e) the appropriateness of the decision not to prosecute any matters arising from the incident; and (f) any other related matters.
date: 2026-02-04T15:39:00+00:00

One Nation | Statements by Senators | Senate debates
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description: On the day before One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson returns to the Senate, I'd like to reflect on just how Australia has changed during her absence. If a week is a long time in politics,...
encoded: On the day before One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson returns to the Senate, I'd like to reflect on just how Australia has changed during her absence. If a week is a long time in politics, seven sitting days was a generation, sufficient to span the most fundamental realignment of Australian politics in 80 years—which Senator Hanson was free to facilitate, thanks to the Senate suspending her for those seven sitting days. The ALP-LNP uniparty still doesn't understand the concept of unintended consequences. Everyday Australians were outraged at the suspension, and their actions inspired many to speak out in her place. Senator Hanson left with the LNP coalition intact, and she led a party of four senators. She now returns, seven sitting days later, with five members of parliament and party status, and riding a tidal wave of success. Meanwhile, the opposition is in tatters, and the National Party's conscience and engine room, former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, has brought his impressive policy and political skills to One Nation. In May last year, One Nation received the first preference of six per cent of Australian voters. In November last year, that was 15 per cent. Today, polls show it sitting at 26 per cent, and the pundits have stopped asking if One Nation can win lower house seats and instead are trying to work out how many we'll win. Those seven sitting days saw an Islamic terrorist attack on Australian soil in Bondi and the abject failure of this Prime Minister to show compassion towards the victims, or accountability, or justice against the perpetrators. We've seen rushed legislation that ostensibly protected the public, yet, in reality, took away freedoms we all used to enjoy. One Nation would have taken away the perpetrators, and those who incited their terror, and would have left Australians alone to enjoy their lives in peace, freedom and prosperity—concepts which seem foreign to the uniparty. The bill that Senator Hanson presented last Novembe…
date: 2026-02-04T13:26:00+00:00

Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide | Motions | Senate debates
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description: I support Senator Lambie's motion and thank her for it. This is urgent. This is a crisis. This is growing. I want to talk more broadly about how to properly fix the system, and I commend Senator...
encoded: I support Senator Lambie's motion and thank her for it. This is urgent. This is a crisis. This is growing. I want to talk more broadly about how to properly fix the system, and I commend Senator Lambie and the others who've talked about the system. The government is not managing vets, and this has led me to support Senator Lambie. The situation is critical. It needs action, because the neglect is piling issues on issues on issues for ADF members and veterans, and for Australia. This reflects on Australia. The Romans said, 'We send them, we bend them, but we don't mend them!' That could be said of the ADF. Men and women are getting desperate. They're feeling pain, hurt, loneliness, anger, desperation and vulnerability. They're feeling lost and broken. They're very concerned about their mates. We have people coming to us almost daily with legal problems caused by Defence, with medical problems or with psychiatric health problems. These are serious issues. They simply need honesty, mateship, a fair go and being fair dinkum. These men and women have served our nation here and overseas. They deserve our support. What will it take? The government hasn't cared. Although I commend Senator Chisholm for what he just read out, it needs to go far deeper. The government has made this an urgent issue. The findings of the recent Senate inquiry into the Defence honours and awards system were clear. The government came out and just did what the top brass wanted it to do—overrode the whole lot. It listened to people and then ignored them. There were the Taipan deaths. After our warnings, after Senator Shoebridge's warnings, after the previous crash—in which, fortunately, no-one died—the chopper was faulty. The chopper model was faulty. The heads-up display was faulty. ADF top brass ignored the standards and now they're trying to hide it. I once listened to a very experienced senior ADF member who had top service in Vietnam and had risen to a very senior rank. He said that 70 per cent…
date: 2026-02-04T10:41:00+00:00

Housing Australia Amendment (Accountability) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | Senate debates
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description: I thank Senator Bragg for introducing the Housing Australia Amendment (Accountability) Bill 2025, which One Nation supports. There's an urgent need for this bill, which restores the Senate's...
encoded: I thank Senator Bragg for introducing the Housing Australia Amendment (Accountability) Bill 2025, which One Nation supports. There's an urgent need for this bill, which restores the Senate's right to scrutinise regulations issued under a bill. In recent years, more and more provisions which would previously have been included in the bill—hard coded, if you like—are now provided for in regulations which are written by bureaucrats for the benefit of bureaucrats, ministers, donors and mates. These are regulations that, in many cases, are beyond the reach of parliamentary scrutiny. They avoid parliament. We are increasingly seeing not government but dictatorship—a collectivist agenda informed by communist ideology and deployed with complete contempt for the parliamentary process and the large majority of Australians who did not vote Labor or Greens. The Liberal Party had form on this, yet Labor have normalised it. The Albanese Labor government is in the process of removing the option of homeownership from the reach of everyday Australians. Young people will simply not be able to own their own home or use that home in the way that most in this chamber have been able to. Let me explain. One Nation opposed the Help to Buy scheme because the scheme ensures that people will, most likely, never fully own their own home—never. In the many, many years that this scheme makes you a slave to the government, in your own home, the government does nothing for you. For example, with any renovations you make, the government benefits from what you pay. Installing a new kitchen for $20,000 means you get only $12,000 in capital appreciation and the government pockets $8,000 in additional equity for doing nothing. If you spend $21,000, you'll first need to get the government's permission to modify your own home. You can't use any equity you do accumulate to refinance and free money up for buying a business, for instance. That's expressly forbidden. Say your children get into trouble or nee…
date: 2026-02-04T09:07:00+00:00

Labor Government | Adjournment | Senate debates
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description: Tonight I deliver One Nation's eulogy for the status quo that had dominated Australian politics since 1949 and that passed away during the break. 1949 was the year Labor prime minister Ben...
encoded: Tonight I deliver One Nation's eulogy for the status quo that had dominated Australian politics since 1949 and that passed away during the break. 1949 was the year Labor prime minister Ben Chifley delivered the famous 'Light on the hill' speech and Robert Menzies was elected as the first Liberal Party prime minister. Both were men of vision, both had the courage of their convictions and both were driven by a deep love for our beautiful country. This may cause offence amongst the 2026 rabble pretending to still be Labor, yet I must point out the 'light on the hill' metaphor Ben Chifley used as a regular churchgoer is almost a direct quote from the Gospel of Matthew 5:13-16. This is the famous 'salt and light' passage from Jesus's 'Sermon on the mount', where he said inter alia: 'You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Men do not light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick, and it gives light to all that are in the house.' And it's true that Chifley's speech was rooted in the trauma of the Great Depression, with this line: If the movement can make someone more comfortable, give to some father or mother a greater feeling of security for their children, a feeling that if a depression comes there will be work, that the government is striving its hardest to do its best, then the Labor movement will be completely justified. How times have changed. The Labor Party now refuses to even say 'mother' or 'father', let alone build them into their policies. Indeed, Labor ministers refuse to define what a woman is. Today's Labor Party uses gender ideology to subvert the concept of man and woman. It refuses to back families as the fundamental building block of society. It undermines family. To those on the government benches, 'uterus owners' and 'prostate owners' now stand as references to women and men, with 'birthing parents' and 'ejaculators' serving as references to mothers and fathers. The Labor Party has used transgender…
date: 2026-02-03T21:08:00+00:00

Perth: Attack | Motions | Senate debates
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description: by leave—Yes.
encoded: by leave—Yes.
date: 2026-02-03T12:39:00+00:00

Perth: Attack | Motions | Senate debates
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description: by leave—We want to record our opposition.
encoded: by leave—We want to record our opposition.
date: 2026-02-03T12:39:00+00:00

Perth: Attack | Motions | Senate debates
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description: Same, please—we want (e) and (i) put separately.
encoded: Same, please—we want (e) and (i) put separately.
date: 2026-02-03T12:39:00+00:00

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026; Second Reading | Bills | Senate debates
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description: Part of the Bondi massacre horror was the realisation that the great Australian 'she'll be right, mate' has failed us. We've watched the growing pro-Gaza demonstrations openly calling for...
encoded: Part of the Bondi massacre horror was the realisation that the great Australian 'she'll be right, mate' has failed us. We've watched the growing pro-Gaza demonstrations openly calling for violence against Jews and anyone who supports them. We've watched Islamic clerics preach hate against Western civilisation and call for jihad—violence against unbelievers. Many Australians thought: 'She'll be right, mate! This is Australia. This will sort itself out.' It did not. For many years, the left-wing commentariat, politicians and media accused those who sought to raise the alarms around rising antisemitism and Christianophobia with the crime of 'threatening social harmony'. The very elastic crime of racism has now been extended to describe as racist anyone who defends Australia and our way of life. Many Australians have been guilty of shooting the messenger, while the message itself—the hatred and radicalisation—went unchallenged. We were told that highlighting radicalisation, rather than the radicalisation itself, was the problem. Well, now look. Look! Australia will not be a safe and tolerant society again until the evil encouraged to fester in our beautiful country is cast out. It is an evil that has become an 'ecosystem of poison', as Labor's Mike Kelly so aptly described it recently. The Bondi massacre was not Islamic-on-Jewish terror imported from the other side of the world. The gunmen did not stop to ask if the victims were Jewish before executing them. We must call Bondi what it is: a radical Islamist attack on all Australians. Why were the Labor Party, the Greens, the teals and the globalist Liberals so blind to the growing threat of Islamic terror in this country? As recently as 16 May 2023, Prime Minister Albanese denied the reality of Islamic terrorism when he said: … the strongest threat that has been identified for our security has been right-wing extremism. This statement from the Prime Minister and quisling bureaucrats is misdirection. Fascists and white s…
date: 2026-01-20T17:04:00+00:00

Bondi Beach: Attack | Condolences | Senate debates
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description: Fifteen Australians massacred in 10 minutes of terror—15 Australians executed, 15 Australians given the death sentence for being in a park and on the street in a beautiful, once peaceful...
encoded: Fifteen Australians massacred in 10 minutes of terror—15 Australians executed, 15 Australians given the death sentence for being in a park and on the street in a beautiful, once peaceful part of our country. Others are carrying injuries and scars for life. My condolences to the victims' families, friends, workmates and colleagues. Nothing I can say will adequately articulate your grief, fear, devastation, shock and desperation—your search for understanding, for clarity in putting your lives back together, for addressing the hole in your heart and mind, for meaning, for making sense of it all. It's difficult to make sense of something senseless that's the result of inhuman ideology, Islamic ideology, which is the number one killer of Muslims worldwide, a rampant killer of Christians and of Jewish people and the driving force behind indiscriminate killing of non-adherents worldwide. Before 14 December 2025 we thought this may happen close to us—in Bali's two bombings, when 92 Australians died—yet surely not on our shores. How can you make sense of it all when so many people won't name the force, Islam, that brutally murdered your loved ones? Yet before embarking on that search, I acknowledge 27 million Australians who had our collective perception of Australian security ripped away, tearing at the heart and fabric of our nation, security, culture and identity—our democracy, our unity. My condolences to all Australians whom this tragedy touches. Honouring the Bondi victims is not with words alone; above all it's done with action—honest, genuine, meaningful actions. This is an opportunity to unite Australians whom this tragedy touches and to unite them with a unity based in truth. Another preliminary to action is to acknowledge that life is precious. From conception to death, life is precious. This is the first of our universal God-given freedoms, the freedom of life, our freedom to live. Without freedom to live there can be no freedom of speech, no freedom of thought, …
date: 2026-01-19T12:14:00+00:00

g86.1
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title: Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025, National Environmental Protection Agency Bill 2025, Environment Information Australia Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Customs Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Excise Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (General Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Restoration Charge Imposition) Bill 2025; In Committee | Bills | Senate debates
description: Minister, these bills are a betrayal of Queensland, a betrayal of Australia and a betrayal of democracy. As an aside, before I start my question, on the first list of speakers to this bill in the...
encoded: Minister, these bills are a betrayal of Queensland, a betrayal of Australia and a betrayal of democracy. As an aside, before I start my question, on the first list of speakers to this bill in the second reading debate, I was speaker No. 9. The other One Nation senators were further down the list. On the revised speakers list, I was third last, Senator Bell was second last and Senator Whitten was last. No chance at all of getting to speak! One Nation is the party the other parties fear. We are the real opposition. Minister, another day another dodgy deal between the Labor Party and the Greens, which, as usual, sells out everyday Australians to advance the government's overarching agenda of virtue signalling and TikTok video production. From the moment the deal was done, this government has chosen to make a mockery of parliamentary process. What matters to the Labor Party is not the outcome. No, it's the so-called win. Yet all Australians lose. The Greens are the spiritual bedfellows of the ALP in this regard. No sooner is the ink dry on this dirty, backroom deal than they immediately move the goalposts. The Greens now want one set of rules for Australia's natural environment and a whole new set for Australian Aboriginal environment. I thought all our land was unceded and belonged to Aboriginals. Surely, the Greens motion doesn't in fact acknowledge that Australia belongs to Australians, regardless of skin colour. Who knows! One could go mad thinking too much about Greens motions. Certainly, they don't do much thinking about them. It will be left to a One Nation government to clean up the mess this bill will create, and we shall clean it up. One Nation will repeal this bill and replace it with protections to our natural environment based on sensible, honest stewardship—on outcomes and on data, not on feelings. Our second reading amendment set out some of our objections to the bill. Given time constraints, I'm not going to repeat these now, Minister. Liberal senator Du…
date: 2025-11-27T13:18:00+00:00

Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference | Committees | Senate debates
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description: by leave—I ask that our opposition to that motion be recorded as well, please.
encoded: by leave—I ask that our opposition to that motion be recorded as well, please.
date: 2025-11-27T12:09:00+00:00