Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak on the Customs Legislation Amendment (False Trade Marks Infringement Notices) Bill 2026. Of course, we all fundamentally believe in making sure that we have the legislative arrangements in place so that Australia's intellectual property framework continues to operate confidently and works to respect the property rights of rights holders.

I was fascinated by the delusional speech by the member for Forde, where he reflected on the state of trademarks and the operational problems around organised crime taking advantage of illicit products imported into this country, in particular when the Labor Party has been central to financing, through government, organised crime for things like illicit tobacco. I believe very strongly in trademark protection, but the solution from the Labor Party in these areas has been to strip products of their trademarks so that they can create a generic product so that they can increase the chances of not just extracting record profits for organised crime but, in addition to that, fuelling and building out the infrastructure necessary for organised crime to thrive.

I've said previously that, legislatively, there has never been a better time for organised crime than under the Albanese government. They're securing record profits. They're securing them in the black market, and there are direct incentives because of government policy to do so. Normally the response from a government would be to snuff out those pathways for people to secure record profits through organised crime. We have a slightly different situation under the Albanese government.

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