House debates
Thursday, 2 July 2026
Questions without Notice
Cybersafety
2:14 pm
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) | Hansard source
The eSafety Commissioner has asked for the powers to be able to get documents from these big companies and also to increase the fines. That is what this simple legislation that was passed by the House of Representatives, with overwhelming support across this chamber, will do. It's four pages long. It's really simple. But the practical result of the coalition doing a deal in the Senate to kick this off to an inquiry for months is we are giving notice to these social media companies to clear out their documents, to clear out the evidence, to make sure that they can resist these changes.
Peter Dutton supported these laws, and the Leader of the Opposition can instruct his people—or some of them who might stick to it—over in the Senate to vote for this legislation today before parliament rises; if not, there are real-world consequences of this.
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