Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a one-minute statement.

Leave granted.

I thank the Senate. We know exactly what Senators Antic and Canavan are up to here. They are introducing a bill that they want to use to provide a platform for transphobic people in our community to punch down on transgender Australians and, in particular, on trans kids. That's what's going on here—they are trying to provide a platform, using parliamentary privilege, to punch down on some of the most vulnerable people in our community. Well, as far as the Australian Greens are concerned, we are never, never going to vote in this place to allow you to create that platform. Trans rights are human rights! Trans people and trans kids deserve our love and support. They deserve us to stand up and defend their right to exist, and the Australian Greens will always do that.