Senate debates

Monday, 24 November 2025

Bills

Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2025; In Committee

11:52 am

Photo of Penny Allman-PaynePenny Allman-Payne (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Following on from Senator Thorpe's contribution around the statement from academic and legal experts, I think it's important that we get on the record who it is that's telling the government that we really need to have some additional scrutiny of schedule 5. It's people like Marian Sawyer, emeritus professor from the Australian National University; Adjunct Professor Nicholas Cowdrey AO, KC, adjunct at the law schools of the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales; Adjunct Professor George Newhouse, CEO of the National Justice Project; Associate Professor Hannah McGlade, a member of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues; Tracey Booth, acting dean at the Faculty of Law, UTS; Professor Lise Barry, dean at the Macquarie Law School; Professor Tamara Walsh, professor of law and director of the UQ Pro Bono Centre, University of Queensland; and Associate Professor Maria Giannacopoulos, director of the Centre for Criminology, Law and Justice, University of New South Wales. It includes John Scott, professor and head of the School of Justice at QUT; Professor Amy Maguire, director of the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Newcastle; Professor Paul Henman, professor of digital sociology and social policy at the University of Queensland; Kristen Lyons, professor at the School of Social Science, University of Queensland; Professor Juan Tauri, professor of criminology, University of Melbourne; Michael Flood, professor at the Queensland University of Technology; and Gaby Ramia, professor of public policy, University of Sydney.

There's also Dr Alessandro Pelizzon, discipline lead of law at the University of the Sunshine Coast; Professor Heather Douglas, University of Melbourne; Linda Steele, professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney; Alex Steel, professor, Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales; Lynda Cheshire, professor of sociology at the University of Queensland; Greg Martin, professor of criminology and sociolegal studies at the University of Sydney; Professor Thalia Anthony, Faculty of Law, UTS; Professor Chris Cunneen, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research; Ruth Phillips, professor of social policy at the University of Sydney; Professor Lou Crabtree-Hayes, professorial research fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University; Lorana Bartels, professor of criminology at the Australian National University and adjunct professor of law at the University of Canberra and the University of Tasmania; Dr Penny Crofts, professor, UTS; Linda Briskman, professor of social work at Western Sydney University; Professor Greg Marston, Director of the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland; Dr Zoe Staines, senior lecturer in criminology and social policy at the University of Queensland—it's a long list.

It includes Dr Francis Markham, fellow at the ANU Centre for Social Policy Research at the Australian National University; Dr Elise Klein, associate professor of public policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU; Dr Ben Spies-Butcher, associate professor of economy and society at the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University; Dr Christopher Rudge, lecturer and deputy director of Sydney Health Law at the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney; Dr Simone Casey, principal research fellow, Centre for Inclusive Employment at Swinburne University of Technology; Dr Edward Jegasothy, senior lecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney; Dr Sue Olney, associate professor of political science at the University of Melbourne; Dr Eve Vincent, associate professor of anthropology at Macquarie University; Dr Emma Mitchell, Macquarie University research fellow in sociology at Macquarie University; Gareth Bryant, associate professor at the University of Sydney; Emma Power, associate professor, School of Social Sciences and the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University; Haylee Davis at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research; Estrella Pearce, lecturer in criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney; Fiona Allison, associate professor, Jumbunna Institute, UTS; Dr Kate Thomas; Dr Mark Riboldi, lecturer at UTS Business School, University of Technology Syndey; Dinesh Wadiwel, associate professor in sociolegal studies and human rights at the University of Sydney; Monique Hurley, lecturer at Melbourne Law School and associate legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre; and Adjunct Associate Professor Terese Henning at TOPCAT.

There's Associate Professor Helen Gibbon at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law and Justice; Dr Vicki Sentas, associate professor at the Centre for Criminology, Law and Justice at the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales Sydney; Kate Swaffer, activist and researcher at the University of South Australia; Phillip Wadds, associate professor at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law and Justice; Melissa Johnston, lecturer at the University of Queensland; Natasha Cortis, associate professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales; Dr Sean Mulcahy, La Trobe University; Stefanie Plage, research fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course; Dr Sarah Bennett, associate professor in criminology at the University of Queensland; Dr Emma Antrobus, also a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Queensland; Rose Stambe, research fellow at Griffith University; Dr Michelle Peterie, senior research fellow at the University of Sydney; Dr Peter Walters, associate professor at the School of Social Science, University of Queensland; Lana Tatour, University of New South Wales; Dr Phuc Nguyen, La Trobe University; Dr Leah Williams, senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law and Justice; Emile Carreau, lecturer at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law and Justice; and Dr Sarah Ball, lecturer in public policy at the University of Queensland.

The names also include Dr Georgia Van Toorn from the University of New South Wales; Dr Susan Collings, senior research fellow, Transforming early Education And Child Health Research Centre, Western Sydney University; Associate Professor Helen Gibbon from the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law and Justice; Scarlet Wilcock, a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law and Justice; Dr Janet Hunt, honorary associate professor, Centre for Indigenous Policy Research at the Australian National University; Melissa O'Donnell, academic researcher; Esther Erlings, senior lecturer at Macquarie Law School; Arianna Gatta, research fellow at the School of Economics and the Centre for Policy Futures, University of Queensland; Andreea Lachsz, Quentin Bryce Law Doctoral Scholar at UTS; Anna Copeland, associate professor and director of clinical legal education at Murdoch University; Associate Professor Trish Luker, Faculty of Law, UTS; Francesca Dominello, senior lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney; Sarah Moulds, associate professor in law, University of South Australia; Emily Piggott, Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University; Piers Gooding, associate professor, La Trobe Law School; Dr Laura Bedford, senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Melbourne; Dr Emily Wolfinger, Western Sydney University; Dr Rebecca Scott Bray, associate professor, University of Sydney; and Andy Kaladelfos, senior lecturer, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law and Justice.

We also have legal and policy experts, and I might leave it to Senator Thorpe to continue that list.

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