Julian Hill's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
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date: 2026-02-05T22:06:02+00:00
items: Translating and Interpreting Services Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
items: Hussainzada, Ms Fariba, Hussainzada, Farzad, Afghanistan | Adjournment | House debates
items: Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: g25.7
items: Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates

Translating and Interpreting Services Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I'll just respond to a couple of points made there. All Australians are equal under the law, whatever language they speak and whatever culture they have. I don't think there'd be anyone here who...
encoded: I'll just respond to a couple of points made there. All Australians are equal under the law, whatever language they speak and whatever culture they have. I don't think there'd be anyone here who would disagree with that. I'll point you towards—you've probably read it but not recently—the Hawke government's 1989 statement on multicultural Australia. In my view, it's probably the best articulation and expression we've had since Al Grassby's work in 1973, taken up by the Fraser government in 1978 and then the Hawke government's seminal statement in 1989. I think after that there was Turnbull and then there was the Gillard government, or Gillard then the Turnbull government. The 1989 statement had a really good definition of multiculturalism. It talked about individual and communal rights to cultural expression. We've always been a multicultural continent. We've had First Nations Australians speak more than 250 languages; 167 of them are still spoken today. British settlement and then the expansion of European settlement changed the face of the continent. It's complex history, but we can have empathy in hearing different perspectives. Then our democratic system of government flowed from that—our institutions that I'm proud of and I think most people here sign up to. But then, of course, there was the miracle of modern Australia, where for 50 years overwhelmingly we've been peaceful. We've been the most successful multicultural country. I do think, though, that a lot of what you expressed there, Member for New England—put aside some of the fears and anxieties, and we can argue about how policy is applied—has already been the traditional expression of multiculturalism. It's the rights that come from individual and communal cultural expression. That includes speaking your first language when and where you want to. English is our common language, and I'll touch on that in a moment. But the rights have always been within defined limits. It's not just in the law but is, as pe…
date: 2026-02-04T16:56:00+00:00

Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
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description: For the families and loved ones of those 15 people who lost their lives in this horrific antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach, no words can ever be enough. We've been honoured by those who found the...
encoded: For the families and loved ones of those 15 people who lost their lives in this horrific antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach, no words can ever be enough. We've been honoured by those who found the strength to come to Canberra and observe today's parliamentary condolence motion. The searing grief and pain does not pass quickly when you lose someone you dearly love. Grief is personal. It comes in waves and ebbs and flows as it does its work over time. But grief is magnified, in these circumstances, beyond what most of us will ever have to bear—the violent murder of loved ones, made worse because it was not random. It was terror, targeted at people simply because they were Jewish. Our hearts also go out to those who survived but who endured unimaginable scenes of horror—trauma which will stay with them but not define them. The worst ever terrorist attack on Australian soil was designed to spread fear and division, with maximum impact at the iconic Bondi Beach, a place globally renowned, showcasing the best of Australia's egalitarian nature—a place where generations of Jewish Australians had gathered to be and celebrate together, including, as we heard earlier, generations of the member for Macarthur's family. 14 December saw the very worst of humanity—evil, hate and murder—but also the best of Australia: love, courage, sacrifice and solidarity. The Prime Minister and other speakers have spoken of the remarkable acts of courage that Australians witnessed: first responders whose work saved lives; victims and heroes who risked and, in some cases, sacrificed their own lives to save the lives of others; Boris and Sofia Gurman, who were killed; Reuven Morrison, who was killed; and Ahmed al-Ahmed, a true Muslim, unlike the cowards who murdered the innocent. Australians in my community and across our continent have been utterly horrified by this terrorist attack. It is to our nation's abiding shame that, in the very moment when Jewish Australians should have been safe, celebrat…
date: 2026-01-19T19:51:00+00:00

Hussainzada, Ms Fariba, Hussainzada, Farzad, Afghanistan | Adjournment | House debates
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description: I speak with a heavy heart to acknowledge a tragedy that has deeply affected my community. Fariba Hussainzada and her six-year-old son, Farzad, lost their lives in the waters of the Dandenong...
encoded: I speak with a heavy heart to acknowledge a tragedy that has deeply affected my community. Fariba Hussainzada and her six-year-old son, Farzad, lost their lives in the waters of the Dandenong Creek. Fariba, originally from Afghanistan, had been living in Australia for 10 years. She was a loving mother of three and, when her little boy slipped into the creek, she did what any parent would instinctively do. She tried to save him. Her bravery in that moment was extraordinary. Unfortunately, both mother and son lost their lives. This devastating loss has torn a family apart, leaving a four- and a one-year-old without their mother. The whole community—it's a tight-knit community in Dandenong, and a growing Hazara community—has been left in mourning. I extend my heartfelt condolences to Fariba and Farzad's family, and to the grieving community in my electorate. Please know that we stand with you in this time of grief. I'm proud to represent the largest community of Australians born in Afghanistan—of any MP in this parliament. Afghanistan is a diverse country. It is rich in cultural traditions and languages. Fourteen ethnicities are acknowledged in the national anthem, and they live alongside many other, smaller ethnic groups and tribes. Modern Afghanistan has a proud but complex history that is sadly marred by tragic cycles of violence. While there will never be a single view of history, no part of Afghanistan or Afghan society has been immune from violence or persecution—whether Pashtun, Hazara, Tajik, Uzbeks or any other of the ethnic groups. While Australia's relationship with the state of Afghanistan endures, Australia has no intention of accrediting a representative of the Taliban or establishing diplomatic relations with the Taliban. I'm pleased, though, to have formed a new Parliamentary Friendship Group for the people of Afghanistan. This group has been formed to express Australia's support for the people of Afghanistan, and to serve as a forum for parliamentarian…
date: 2025-11-27T11:16:00+00:00

Hussainzada, Ms Fariba, Hussainzada, Farzad, Afghanistan | Adjournment | House debates
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description: Happy wedding anniversary to the member for Casey.
encoded: Happy wedding anniversary to the member for Casey.
date: 2025-11-27T11:16:00+00:00

Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: The member for Werriwa has read one of my press releases! You can talk about that, too, when you get up. The previous speaker mentioned that it was a deep surprise that there'd been a sanctioned...
encoded: The member for Werriwa has read one of my press releases! You can talk about that, too, when you get up. The previous speaker mentioned that it was a deep surprise that there'd been a sanctioned sponsor named and shamed. Well, I say genuinely to the member: the legislation has been operative for a bit over a year. It takes proper process and time, and natural justice. You've got to be fair to the employers. You've got to do the investigation. Actually, let's go back to basics: you have to put the money in, employ the staff, train the staff and then send them out. You have to have public servants to go and do the enforcement—also a shocking concept, given the tens of thousands of staff they stripped out of the Public Service; there was almost no enforcement capability left in the Department of Home Affairs. I say to the member: in addition to the naming and shaming of that sanctioned sponsor, there are legal worker warning notices, compliance notices, enforceable undertakings, prohibited employers, employer sanction infringements, nonvoluntary location and human trafficking referrals—so there's been a whole range of sanctions put in place that the staff now working in the Australian Border Force are able to employ, and in many cases are employing. This bill comes as the latest part of a package of reforms to address migrant worker exploitation. We've put in place a range of pragmatic measures that focus on strengthening the legislative framework available under the Migration Act and the enforcement capabilities of the department and the Australian Border Force to address employer noncompliance. That includes enhancing protections to encourage temporary migrants to report exploitation and resolve workplace issues in a timely manner. The Migration Amendment (Strengthening Employer Compliance) Act amended the Migration Act with the following measures—I will outline a few of them for context because they work as part of a package. This is just the latest part of the pack…
date: 2025-11-26T19:14:00+00:00

Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I know. It's a strong competition. I'm thinking within my portfolio space. You know, keep it narrow. I don't want to go too broad. It's late at night. But the decision to uncap the work hours...
encoded: I know. It's a strong competition. I'm thinking within my portfolio space. You know, keep it narrow. I don't want to go too broad. It's late at night. But the decision to uncap the work hours that international students could work to allow them to work unlimited hours turned our high-quality student visa—our premium student visa—into some kind of low-rent guest worker visa. It corrupted the student visa pipeline. We're still paying for that today, with the non-genuine students that the Morrison government let in, working their way through the ART appeals system and gaming it. We're still paying for that failure today. It's the same principle: if you let too many low-skilled workers in without the right safeguards, it actually drags down the wages of Australian workers. As we know, that was their policy. This bill is another key step to strengthen protection for migrant workers that helps all Australians. The bill seeks to enhance protections by introducing a public register of approved work sponsors. It implements a commitment that the government made in the migration strategy. There's a sort of shock-horror routine from those opposite: 'Ooh, where did this come from? Who made this up?' Well, it was in the migration strategy. I know those two words would be unfamiliar to them because we inherited a complete and utter mess in the home affairs department. They'd sacked over 1,500 workers and destroyed the capability of the Public Service. Peter Dutton, Scott Morrison, the whole legacy, the whole cabal, were up there with the Australian flag behind them. They'd run out of Australian flags for every press conference. But when you look behind the curtain, when you look under the hood, there's no compliance. There is literally no enforcement going on in the Department of Home Affairs that we inherited. We did the migration review, we did the Migration strategy, we set out the things we're now implementing to tighten up the system and we're rebuilding the enforcement capab…
date: 2025-11-26T19:14:00+00:00

Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I think you had 58 seconds to go, after all those fine words, when you finally fessed up that, despite all the concern about exploitation of migrant workers and all the noble sentiments, you're...
encoded: I think you had 58 seconds to go, after all those fine words, when you finally fessed up that, despite all the concern about exploitation of migrant workers and all the noble sentiments, you're actually not going to vote for the bill. This is not 'a half-baked proposal', to quote you; this is something that came out of the Migration Strategy, following the migration review, that is responding to a serious problem, which is the foul, disgusting, shameful, ongoing exploitation of migrant workers. Let me address two of the points that the member for Nicholls made. Firstly, in relation to the TSMIT, let's be very clear about what we heard there. We heard 3½ minutes of a circular argument, but, when you strip it back, what the member opposite was arguing for was lower wages. That's not a surprise, given the entire economic management philosophy of the previous government was a 'deliberate design feature' of their economic management to keep wages down. The member spoke of the shock and outrage at the TSMIT. For those listening at home, that's the temporary skilled migration income threshold. It's the minimum amount that an employer bringing in a migrant worker has to pay them. He said: 'This is terrible! It's jumped from $53,000 to $70,000!' Shock, horror! Well, do you know why? It's because, in their nine years in government, those opposite didn't index it. They held it at $53,000. So, in real terms, employers were able to bring in workers year after year and pay them less and less. Guess what that does? The economic labour market analysis was absolutely clear: it holds down the wages of Australian workers. When employers can too easily bring in migrant workers and pay them a pittance, it holds down the wages of low-skilled Australians. That was absolutely clear. It was established through parliamentary inquiry after parliamentary inquiry with labour market submissions and labour market analysis. But, of course, they did nothing about it. They wouldn't index the minimum…
date: 2025-11-26T19:14:00+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: Go over some of those excellent points you made.
encoded: Go over some of those excellent points you made.
date: 2025-11-25T19:19:00+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: Under standing order 66A, I was wondering if I could make a brief intervention and ask the member for Bennelong to repeat the list of local venues, so we've got them clearly fixed in our head.
encoded: Under standing order 66A, I was wondering if I could make a brief intervention and ask the member for Bennelong to repeat the list of local venues, so we've got them clearly fixed in our head.
date: 2025-11-25T19:10:00+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's a big package.
encoded: It's a big package.
date: 2025-11-25T18:55:00+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: Just. Exactly! Just—I'll take the interjection. It's a cost-of-living measure that the opposition might just support, because, having listened over the last few days of the last sitting...
encoded: Just. Exactly! Just—I'll take the interjection. It's a cost-of-living measure that the opposition might just support, because, having listened over the last few days of the last sitting week to a whole bunch of those speeches—we'll call them speeches—about this bill to freeze the excise on draught beer and excise-equivalent customs duties, you wouldn't actually be clear whether they're going to vote for the bill, because the speeches are couched in negativity and division. There's no joy; it's all division. Anyway, my deeply considered and thoroughly original speech will start with a quote. I want to quote the member for Paterson: We all know Australians have endless names for beer—a frothy, a cold one, a schooner, a pint, a middy, a jug, a stubby, a tinny, a longneck, a pony, a coldie, a bevvy or a brew. Whatever you call it—and it does vary—it was one of those things that, when I first started travelling interstate as a young adult, was deeply confusing. When I'd go to the pub in New South Wales, I'd order one thing and get another. Then I'd go back to my home state of Victoria and order the same thing I'd learned about and I'd get a different thing. But wherever you are in Australia and whatever you call it, this bill is good news for beer drinkers, and it's good news for the hospitality venues, the brewers and the hundreds of thousands of Australians who work in the industries—be they supply chains, farming, agriculture, transport industries and so on—that support these venues. There will be a two-year pause on the indexation of draught beer excise and excise-equivalent customs duties. The government is standing up for pubs, clubs, brewers and hospitality workers through pausing this beer excise. It's a practical, targeted and responsible cost-of-living measure. It supports small businesses. It protects jobs. It keeps the price of a pint stable for everyday Australians, and that's important. We inherited record inflation. Inflation has more than halved since its…
date: 2025-11-25T18:40:00+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: Well, I enjoyed what I heard of your contribution, particularly as you put it in the context of the government's cost-of-living measures, of which this is one—not perhaps the major one, not...
encoded: Well, I enjoyed what I heard of your contribution, particularly as you put it in the context of the government's cost-of-living measures, of which this is one—not perhaps the major one, not the only one, but certainly one. But I find it telling, having sat through a few of the speeches from our colleagues opposite, that every time you talk about a cost-of-living measure they arc up. But we may have found a unicorn in this bill. We may actually have found a cost-of-living measure that the opposition will support.
date: 2025-11-25T18:40:00+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: Member for Eden-Monaro, you had five minutes to go. You could've gone over the highlights and the best-ofs in that wonderful 10-minute contribution.
encoded: Member for Eden-Monaro, you had five minutes to go. You could've gone over the highlights and the best-ofs in that wonderful 10-minute contribution.
date: 2025-11-25T18:40:00+00:00

g25.7
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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; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
description: You delayed it.
encoded: You delayed it.
date: 2025-11-05T12:07:00+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: What was the horse again?
encoded: What was the horse again?
date: 2025-11-03T19:18:00+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's a hot tip!
encoded: It's a hot tip!
date: 2025-11-03T19:18:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I'll put on the record that I agree with bits of the previous speaker’s contribution, and I thank him for bits of that contribution. I'm fairly sure that, having listened to the speech,...
encoded: I'll put on the record that I agree with bits of the previous speaker’s contribution, and I thank him for bits of that contribution. I'm fairly sure that, having listened to the speech, he's suggesting that he may support the bill or that the opposition supports the bill this term. I didn't hear an unequivocal statement that they will vote for this bill this term, because they voted against it last term. I will remain reasonably optimistic. It is a bit hard to know. You missed the point of order on relevance. I did invite him to take a detour into irrelevance, when he wanted to have an extended go at the crossbench. I thought that might be nice to have on the record. But there were some useful bits in the second half that I could agree with. That's the third speech in the last two days that I've endured from the member for Goldstein. We're a few months into this parliament, and it seems that we're seeing a pattern where he wants to speak on everything as part of his ongoing leadership campaign. I suggest that he provide a little more structure and purpose to the contributions. It might stand him in better stead. The first six minutes yesterday, as with today and as with the day before, were completely irrelevant. Yesterday, after 4½ minutes, he called relevance on himself before the deputy speaker pulled him up. But here we are. I spoke very strongly in support of this bill on 24 July, and I do so again today. It's something that's very dear to my heart because, when I was chair of the defence committee, I did the work to put this forward. It builds, as I will acknowledge in a moment, on a legacy of many coalition members, including Senator Fawcett, the late Senator Molan and Senator Reynolds, who have advocated for this reform. The irony for poor Senator Reynolds, of course, was that, as chair of the subcommittee, she advocated for the reform and then they made her defence minister. Then she wasn't allowed to implement her own bill because the government wouldn't a…
date: 2025-10-30T11:32:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: The point of order is on relevance. I understand the speech he wishes to make on 18C but he was in the chamber and chose not to speak on the previous motion. I'm sure we could reschedule it if he...
encoded: The point of order is on relevance. I understand the speech he wishes to make on 18C but he was in the chamber and chose not to speak on the previous motion. I'm sure we could reschedule it if he wants a chance to speak on that, but I suggest he speaks to the bill.
date: 2025-10-30T11:16:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: It is not an intervention; it is a point of order. They are two different things under the standing orders. I am not being smart; that is actually true.
encoded: It is not an intervention; it is a point of order. They are two different things under the standing orders. I am not being smart; that is actually true.
date: 2025-10-30T11:16:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: On relevance, the member was—
encoded: On relevance, the member was—
date: 2025-10-30T11:16:00+00:00