Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Citizenship, Customs and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Deputy Speaker. I am very eager to speak on this bill. I strongly support the Treasury Laws Amendment (Genetic Testing Protections in Life Insurance and Other Measures) Bill 2025, which will ban the use of genetic test results in life insurance.

It's been a long time coming, and I give an enormous and very warm shout-out to Dr Jane Tiller. She is irrepressible, with her intellect and her charm and her steadfast advocacy; no-one can avoid Jane. She first graced my office, I think, in late 2023 or early 2024, and her work has led to this. I have no hesitation in saying this.

I've campaigned for this bill also—with Jane and more broadly for a long time—and I want to acknowledge my daughter. As part of the campaign, a couple of years ago, she spoke up in an ABC article. I was actually overseas at the time. She rang me and said, 'Dad, they've asked me to do TV.' I thought, 'Oh my God, TV.' But the interview was amazing. I was incredibly proud of her. She told her story with grace—

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