Senate debates

Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Bills

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026; Second Reading

3:43 pm

Photo of Bridget McKenzieBridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you so much. Over 65,000 Australians have signed up to say, 'No, we are not the problem here, Prime Minister, and you need to stop saying we are.'

The National Party and the coalition are opposing these laws, and we don't make an apology for that at all, because we know it's not the gun that saw 15 lives lost and Jewish Australians targeted on 14 December, when Australia was confronted with a brutal and senseless act of violence at Bondi. Innocent people going about their lives in a place that should have been safe and ordinary were murdered. Families were shattered—

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