Anne Aly's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
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date: 2026-02-10T22:05:32+00:00
items: Cowan Electorate: Australia Day | Constituency Statements | House debates
items: Economy | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
items: Translating and Interpreting Services Bill 2025; Third Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Bolkus, Hon. Nick | Condolences | House debates
items: Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
items: Translating and Interpreting Services Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Racial Discrimination Act 1975: 50th Anniversary | Statements on Significant Matters | House debates
items: Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Financial Systems and Other Measures) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Social Cohesion | Questions without Notice | House debates

Cowan Electorate: Australia Day | Constituency Statements | House debates
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description: I want to recognise two outstanding contributors to the Cowan community. They're also the recipients of the City of Stirling's 2026 Community Citizen of the Year Awards, and their work reflects...
encoded: I want to recognise two outstanding contributors to the Cowan community. They're also the recipients of the City of Stirling's 2026 Community Citizen of the Year Awards, and their work reflects the very best of who we are. The first is the Perth Rhinos Basketball club. It's more than just a sporting organisation; it's a lifeline for young people seeking connection, belonging and opportunity. The club was originally established to create elite pathways for South Sudanese youth, but it has grown into a truly inclusive club that welcomes everyone. For many young people who have experienced disengagement or social isolation, the Rhinos offer something that cannot be measured on a scoreboard: a sense of inclusion and safety, mentoring and a place to grow with confidence. Through mentors from diverse backgrounds, the Rhinos are building resilience and leadership in the next generation, and their recognition as winners of the Active Citizenship Award is well deserved. It reminds us that grassroots organisations are often the quiet engines of social cohesion. What they give these young people is dignity, empowerment and a sense of belonging that strengthens our entire community. I also want to acknowledge the remarkable Vicky Young. She's the president and co-founder of Dandelions WA, and she's been named Community Citizen of the Year by the City of Stirling. Vicky's work is grounded in compassion and action—the kind of combination that really has an impact on changing lives. This year alone, Dandelions WA will provide 17,000 backpacks to children who might otherwise start school without the essentials that many of us take for granted. But the impact of Dandelions WA goes far beyond backpacks because, under Vicky's leadership, they now support people experiencing homelessness, women and families fleeing violence, individuals in hospital and others navigating hardship. Vicky ensures that people in crisis feel seen and that they are supported and treated with dignity, and she…
date: 2026-02-05T10:29:00+00:00

Economy | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: I will take that opportunity, then, thank you.
encoded: I will take that opportunity, then, thank you.
date: 2026-02-05T15:39:00+00:00

Economy | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: If I may, I've heard time and time again the quotes from those opposite as they're using them through their speeches. I just want to clarify that that's not what I said, and I think that those—
encoded: If I may, I've heard time and time again the quotes from those opposite as they're using them through their speeches. I just want to clarify that that's not what I said, and I think that those—
date: 2026-02-05T15:39:00+00:00

Economy | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: I will not sit here and watch the shadow minister, with his confected outrage, when he has never ever brought up the subject of— (Time expired)
encoded: I will not sit here and watch the shadow minister, with his confected outrage, when he has never ever brought up the subject of— (Time expired)
date: 2026-02-05T15:18:00+00:00

Economy | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: My apologies, Deputy Speaker Claydon. I want to talk a little bit about our National Small Business Strategy. The fact is you cannot deliver and you cannot say that you deliver for small...
encoded: My apologies, Deputy Speaker Claydon. I want to talk a little bit about our National Small Business Strategy. The fact is you cannot deliver and you cannot say that you deliver for small businesses if you don't have a strategy. Our small business strategy, which I again remind the House is the very first national small business strategy, looks at three pillars. It looks at how we help businesses grow, it looks at cutting red tape and it looks at creating an even playing field for small businesses. These are the three things that small businesses always raise with me when I speak to them. They tell me: 'We just want an even playing field. We just want a fair go.' They tell me, 'There's too much red tape,' and often that red tape is over different levels of government, which is why it's important to speak to states and territories. And they tell me that they want to be able to grow and they want to be able to thrive. And if you have those three pillars as the basis, the principles, upon which you base the work that you do in small business, then you are able to deliver for them. Under those three pillars, there are a number of things that we have delivered. I want to talk a little bit about the instant asset write-off, which we extended. It's a $20,000 instant asset write-off. It allows small businesses to purchase the equipment that they need to keep going. I want to talk about the many supports we have for businesses around digital solutions. A lot of small businesses are a bit reticent to uptake AI, to utilise digital solutions. I want to tell small businesses that there is help out there, to help you utilise digital solutions, to grow your business and to keep your business going. I want to talk about the targets that we've set for government procurement. We've increased the target of government procurement for businesses under 20 billion to 40 per cent, and that means that any government contracts under 20 billion, 40 per cent of them must be small or medium ente…
date: 2026-02-05T15:18:00+00:00

Economy | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: I actually welcome those opposite finally focusing on something important to Australia and to Australian communities and to the Australian economy, and that is small businesses. I can't help but...
encoded: I actually welcome those opposite finally focusing on something important to Australia and to Australian communities and to the Australian economy, and that is small businesses. I can't help but wonder though, given the shadow minister's recent performance, whether it was a job interview or perhaps all of this is just another distraction from the chaos, discord and infighting that we're seeing over the other side. I do welcome them actually asking a question about small business and focusing on something other than themselves for once. So I will take this opportunity to talk about small business. First of all, though, I want to thank the many small businesses I have visited, whether in the member for Wills's electorate, the member for Moore's electorate or the member for Aston's electorate, who have taken the time to sit down with me and to go through some of the issues that they're experiencing. I can't tell you how valuable their feedback and their input is into the work that we are doing here as a government—real work that is built on Australia's very first National Small Business Strategy, a strategy that those opposite didn't have in the whole time that they were in government—and into things that we take to the small business ministers meetings, meetings that those opposite didn't convene once when they were in government. Since we've been in government, we've had seven small business ministers meetings, and I'm really pleased to say that I've convened two of them. The previous minister had convened five before that. How do you work with small businesses and deliver for small businesses if you don't talk to the states and territories, if you don't bring together small business ministers meetings, if you don't go out and talk to small businesses and listen to them? Before I continue, I want to address a piece of misinformation. I hope that it is not purposeful, though I doubt that it isn't purposeful. I think that perhaps the shadow minister was being very purp…
date: 2026-02-05T15:18:00+00:00

Economy | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: As I was saying, I actually welcome this MPI. I really do want to thank the member for Goldstein, the shadow minister, for bringing this because it gives us an opportunity here to speak about a...
encoded: As I was saying, I actually welcome this MPI. I really do want to thank the member for Goldstein, the shadow minister, for bringing this because it gives us an opportunity here to speak about a really important issue. So far I've been the Minister for Small Business for nine months, and I've spoken many times in this place about small business. I know that the member for Goldstein started his contribution by talking about the lack of opportunity to ask questions about small business. I can tell you that in the nine months that I have been the Minister for Small Business in this place, I have not received a single question from the Liberal opposition about small business. They don't care about small business. They want to pretend that they care. They want to stand here and confect outrage, and they want to bang on the table and talk about small business. But do they actually care about small business? Look at their actions. Look at how many times they've sought to ask questions.
date: 2026-02-05T15:18:00+00:00

Economy | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: I actually really do want to thank the shadow minister and member for Goldstein for bringing this—
encoded: I actually really do want to thank the shadow minister and member for Goldstein for bringing this—
date: 2026-02-05T15:18:00+00:00

Economy | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: Maybe they were dodgy.
encoded: Maybe they were dodgy.
date: 2026-02-05T15:08:00+00:00

Translating and Interpreting Services Bill 2025; Third Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
encoded: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
date: 2026-02-05T09:42:00+00:00

Bolkus, Hon. Nick | Condolences | House debates
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description: I too want to record my deep sadness on the death of the Hon. Nick Bolkus and honour his outstanding service to our nation. Senator Bolkus was a pillar of the Australian Labor Party, as the...
encoded: I too want to record my deep sadness on the death of the Hon. Nick Bolkus and honour his outstanding service to our nation. Senator Bolkus was a pillar of the Australian Labor Party, as the minister outlined in his speech just then, and he was also a pioneer of multicultural Australia. As the first federal cabinet member of Greek heritage, he demonstrated to many of us who were watching from the outside that representation is not just symbolic; representation matters. Senator Bolkus didn't simply inherit the story of migration; he lived it. And he lived that story through his longstanding career advocating for people from every background. He was a minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, and in 1993 he was appointed Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Multicultural Affairs. In both of those positions he worked relentlessly to ensure that the immigration system of this country was fairer and more inclusive. He understood what many in the labour movement understand: inclusiveness is not just an abstract exercise; it has a profound impact on the day-to-day lives of ordinary Australians in their ability to secure employment, in their ability to access services, in having their views heard and in their sense of belonging to this nation. Senator Bolkus was the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs at a time when the Keating government asked Australians to look outward to Asia and inward to our own social cohesion. He understood that multiculturalism had to be about inclusion and participation, not just about food and festivals, and that we recognise a community not just because their food tastes like chicken but because of the many contributions that they bring to Australia. One of his greatest legacies was his stewardship of the Racial Hatred Act 1995. He was the early architect of the legislation that protects Australians from hateful attacks based on their heritage, the colour of their skin or their…
date: 2026-02-04T19:15:00+00:00

Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: It was 'queen of the desert'.
encoded: It was 'queen of the desert'.
date: 2026-02-03T17:51:00+00:00

Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
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description: I guess, just a couple of weeks shy of Christmas, most Australians would have been doing the kinds of ordinary things that we do around that time—prepping for school holidays and for...
encoded: I guess, just a couple of weeks shy of Christmas, most Australians would have been doing the kinds of ordinary things that we do around that time—prepping for school holidays and for Christmas, a time to rest and recoup and spend time with family and friends. For Australia's Jewish community, 14 December was the start of Hanukkah, the festival of light over darkness. Over the course of the history of this great nation, Australians have been tested, through wars and conflict and through droughts and floods. Through each of these challenges something really extraordinary has happened: the Australian spirit has prevailed. It's a spirit that embraces every single Australian in true kinship and genuine mateship, a spirit that says to all Australians, regardless of who they are or where they were born, regardless of their religion or skin colour: you are us and we are you. The day of 14 December 2025 is marked in our nation's collective memory as a day of tragedy. The mass-casualty terrorist attack was not indiscriminate, as most terrorist attacks are; it was an attack that targeted Australian Jews on a day of celebration for who they are. This was anathema to everything Australian—to every value that we hold dear in this country and, indeed, to the very values of humanity. But the day is also remembered for the incredible acts of love, kindness and bravery, and it's that love, kindness and bravery—that light—that will guide us collectively, as a nation, through the dark, as it always has in this country. I take this moment to extend my deepest condolences to the Jewish community. To the families and friends who lost loved ones, to those who were wounded and to those who witnessed horrific scenes that they will never be able to forget, I say: your pain is felt throughout this nation, from our most remote communities to our largest cities. Your pain is Australia's pain and your sorrow is Australia's sorrow. To our Jewish community: we will not look away. We will not let yo…
date: 2026-01-19T11:34:00+00:00

Translating and Interpreting Services Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Australia's translating and interpreting services have a long history and play a vital role in our community. This bill will establish a new act...
encoded: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Australia's translating and interpreting services have a long history and play a vital role in our community. This bill will establish a new act to provide a clear statutory foundation for these services, reflecting the government's commitment to the work of the Translating and Interpreting Service—TIS National—and the important role it plays in our modern, multicultural Australia. The Australian government began providing translating services in 1947, and interpreting services commenced not long after that. These were introduced to support post World War II migrants. The government recognised then, as it does today, the critical importance of these services to migrants making their new homes in Australia. Since 1947, these services have continued to grow and evolve to meet the needs of the Australian community. In 1973 Australia established the world's first telephone interpreting service, which remains a core component of the services today. The government's translating and interpreting services are now provided by Translating and Interpreting Service, or TIS National, in the Department of Home Affairs. TIS Nation's services facilitate communication between people with limited English proficiency and the agencies and businesses that they rely on for vital services. TIS National operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and provides more than 1.3 million interpreting services each year in more than 150 languages. Australia is a diverse, multicultural society with a rich Indigenous heritage and a successful migration story. More than one-quarter of us were born overseas, having migrated from more than 200 countries. The diversity of the Australian population provides us with a variety of languages, beliefs, traditions and cultures, and that is why we have the Multicultural Access and Equity Policy—a key policy ensuring that all Australians, whatever their cultural or linguistic background, are able to access govern…
date: 2025-11-26T10:44:00+00:00

Racial Discrimination Act 1975: 50th Anniversary | Statements on Significant Matters | House debates
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description: Says another class of 2016 person sitting next to me, the member for Bruce! One of the very first debates that I got to participate in in this place was the debate to protect section 18C of the...
encoded: Says another class of 2016 person sitting next to me, the member for Bruce! One of the very first debates that I got to participate in in this place was the debate to protect section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act makes it unlawful to undertake any act that is reasonably likely to 'offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate' a person or a group because of their race, the colour of their skin or where they were born. In a country that prides itself on Australian values—the values of mateship, a fair go and equality—this should not be controversial. It should not be controversial that we take a moment to ensure that we are not offending, humiliating, insulting or intimidating our fellow Australians because of their race, the colour of their skin or where they were born. This should not be controversial. At the time of that debate in 2016 the Attorney-General—appointed by Prime Minister Turnbull at the time—said that people have a right to be bigots, and those opposite mounted an argument against section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. It was an argument that pitted Australian against Australian and rights against rights. They argued that the right to free speech trumped the right to feel safe and trumped the right to live your life without offence, without being humiliated, without being insulted, without feeling like the 'other' and without being made to feel like the lesser. I'm incredibly passionate about this, as is anyone who has been on the receiving end. If you have been on the receiving end of discrimination, if you have been insulted, if you have been humiliated and if you have been offended because of the colour of your skin or because of your race, then you know how deeply it cuts. You know how it carries you. You carry it inside you like a little piece of a broken bone your entire life. You know how much it impacts you. So we went to that debate in 2016, I am proud to say that we won the debate and tha…
date: 2025-10-30T10:40:00+00:00

Racial Discrimination Act 1975: 50th Anniversary | Statements on Significant Matters | House debates
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description: With the launch of the Office for Multicultural Affairs we now have a means to truly drive a cohesive and renewed approach to multiculturalism that fits in with our modern multicultural...
encoded: With the launch of the Office for Multicultural Affairs we now have a means to truly drive a cohesive and renewed approach to multiculturalism that fits in with our modern multicultural Australia. It's an opportunity not only to celebrate the richness of our diversity—the member for Moreton spoke so eloquently on what that means. She spoke about how we move beyond celebration and how we move beyond the valuing of food—as long as it tastes like chicken!—colours and festivities to valuing and acknowledging multiculturalism as a fundamental aspect of who we are. Multiculturalism is the mainstream. It's not a semicolon-and. It's not a postscript. It's not a nice-to-have. It's not an afterthought. It is Australia and it is Australians. Today it is woven into the social and cultural fabric of a modern Australia, from Lunar New Year to Eid or Diwali or Rosh Hashana. These events are celebrated in small towns and big cities from coast to coast. For 50 years, time and time again, the Racial Discrimination Act has helped us strengthen our multiculturalism and strengthen our identity as a multicultural nation. The act has made enormous strides in improving racial equality, including shining a spotlight on wage theft of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and invalidating laws that discriminated against First Nations land rights. It also set the foundation for future antidiscrimination protections on age, sex and disability. In that regard it was quite revolutionary—a watershed moment in Australia's history. Unfortunately there are still those who are made to defend their very presence and belonging in Australia, which harms not only those directly involved but also our whole society. I want to go back to my first term in parliament—elected in 2016.
date: 2025-10-30T10:40:00+00:00

Racial Discrimination Act 1975: 50th Anniversary | Statements on Significant Matters | House debates
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description: I congratulate the member for Moreton on her excellent contribution on this occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Racial Discrimination Act. It is, indeed, an honour to serve with her in this...
encoded: I congratulate the member for Moreton on her excellent contribution on this occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Racial Discrimination Act. It is, indeed, an honour to serve with her in this parliament. As the member for Moreton mentioned, today we mark the 50th anniversary of the RDA, or the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. It was the first law to recognise and protect the right of everyone in Australia to be free from discrimination based on race. Fifty years on, Australians take great pride in our free and democratic country, where all of us have the right to live without fear of discrimination and free from acts of intimidation and violence on the basis of race, ethnicity or cultural heritage. Modern Australia is a migrant nation. It is who we are. The Racial Discrimination Act underscores and protects this vital part of this proud nation. Our multicultural success belongs to all Australians, every single one of them, no matter where you came from, no matter where your parents came from and no matter how you came to be here. Half of all Australians were born overseas or have a parent who was born overseas. My story is one of those stories. I'm an Australian, but I'm also a migrant. At the age of two, my family chose Australia, settling in the Western Suburbs of Sydney. We quickly became a part of our local community. We had neighbours from Britain and New Zealand, but also from China, Greece and the former Yugoslavia. My Australia is defined by my childhood, in the suburbs where we would gather under the hot sun to play a game of legendary Aussie driveway cricket. We improvised wickets out of garbage cans, pausing only intermittently to move the wicket to allow cars to pass by. There we played for hours under the hot sun, on the hot tarmac, interrupted only by the cry of parents standing on the front porch letting us know that it was time to come inside for dinner. And as each child's name was called out into the dusky sky, a different accent could be made out…
date: 2025-10-30T10:40:00+00:00

Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Financial Systems and Other Measures) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: It certainly does. They also told me that the instant asset write-off and the extension of the write-off helps them to manage those challenges of daily cash flow. An example is the Indian grocer...
encoded: It certainly does. They also told me that the instant asset write-off and the extension of the write-off helps them to manage those challenges of daily cash flow. An example is the Indian grocer who buys a freezer so that their business can not just expand but also diversify and start selling naan breads that people can take home and cook at home. If anyone has not tried them yet, I highly recommend them. For small businesses needing to repair or replace items in order to continue to operate safely or efficiently, the write-off allows them to claim the full deduction immediately. That then eases the financial pressure to maintain day-to-day operations—for example, you might have a small manufacturer replace some machinery in order to avoid production stoppages. For small businesses wanting or needing to modernise, the ability to upgrade technology or equipment can improve efficiency, reduce costs and indeed enhance competitiveness. For startups and new small businesses, the write-off provides immediate financial relief, helping new businesses invest without having to build up profits. An example would be a startup online retailer buying storage equipment or a young photographer, who is embarking on a career as a sole trader, going out and buying a new professional camera and lens. The expansion of the write-offs gives them the ability to buy what they need today. The items might be small in nature, but, when we look at small businesses, the diversity of small businesses, the breadth of small businesses and the fact that a large number of small businesses are indeed sole traders who do not operate from a physical premises, the instant asset write-off—though it can provide for small items—can actually make a humungous difference to these small businesses. And I don't think we should be dismissing the impact that the instant asset write-off has for the small businesses that, often, we don't think about. I'm going to be very honest here and say that we don't think about…
date: 2025-10-08T16:38:00+00:00

Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Financial Systems and Other Measures) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise in support of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Financial Systems and Other Measures) Bill 2025. Whilst I support the bill in its entirety, it would be natural for me to focus on...
encoded: I rise in support of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Financial Systems and Other Measures) Bill 2025. Whilst I support the bill in its entirety, it would be natural for me to focus on a part that is particularly important to my portfolio of small business, which is schedule 7. Schedule 7 extends the $20,000 instant asset write-off until 30 June 2026 for eligible businesses. What this measure does is make a real difference to 2.6 million small businesses in Australia. That includes 1.5 million small businesses that are sole traders and who are also benefitting and have also benefitted from our government's tax cuts. As everyone in here knows—because I hear it head said often enough that people support small business in this House—small business owners are out there every day, and they're working hard. They're working hard to fulfil their dreams. They are your Indian grocer. They are the place you go to to get your eyebrows threaded. They are where you get your Vietnamese pancakes. They are the translators and interpreters who operate with an ABN. They fix your cars. They cut your hair. They cater your birthday parties. They resole your shoes. They help you with your tax returns. An example of a small business is My Aunt's Handmade Noodles, which I visited the other day with the member for Reid and the local mayor in her electorate. This is a family owned business, run by a formidable mother and daughter duo, and they craft these handmade noodles using time honoured techniques. The passion and care that My Aunt's Handmade Noodles brings to each and every bowl of these perfectly chewy and flavoured noodles is a level of dedication that I see in the small businesses that I visit and that I meet with right across the country. The Albanese government is backing small businesses just like My Aunt's Handmade Noodles to ensure that they have the support that they need to thrive, because we know that not only are they building a better life for themselves and for t…
date: 2025-10-08T16:38:00+00:00

Social Cohesion | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: I want to thank the member for Lalor and Chief Government Whip, who is an absolute champion for her diverse community. I am incredibly proud to be a member of a government where a child with a...
encoded: I want to thank the member for Lalor and Chief Government Whip, who is an absolute champion for her diverse community. I am incredibly proud to be a member of a government where a child with a name like Ryan, or Soon, or Ng, or Ambihaipahar, or Abdo, or Smith, or France, or Albanese can look at this parliament and say, 'I belong there'; a part of a government that has a vision of an Australia based on fairness and equality, where everyone—no matter who you are, who your parents are or where you were born—feels valued. But we know that our social cohesion is fragile. As long as we treat people with a gritted-teeth tolerance instead of mutual respect, our social cohesion will remain fragile. This Albanese Labor government governs for all, because we believe that every Australian, whatever their race or religion, wherever they or their parents were born, should be able to feel safe and at home, without prejudice or discrimination. This should not be a partisan issue. Over this week I've spoken to members of our Indian diaspora and they've told me that they did not feel safe—and they did not feel secure—after the rallies that we saw on Sunday. They've also told me that comments by some political leaders have exacerbated their fear and shattered their sense of security. To Indian Australians, this is our message: you do not have to justify your belonging in this country. We know you. We value you. We thank you for everything you have contributed to Australia—to communities, to charities, to business, to politics, to our medical profession and to our economy. We stand with you as we always have. When the immigration of Lebanese Australians was described as a mistake, that was wrong. When the African Australian community were unfairly stereotyped, that was wrong. When the Chinese Australian community were accused of being spies, that was wrong. And the scapegoating of Indian communities, designed to undermine their sense of safety and belonging, is wrong. Every member of t…
date: 2025-09-04T14:43:00+00:00