Senate debates

Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Motions

Universal Periodic Review

4:16 pm

Photo of David ShoebridgeDavid Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

This is urgent because it has only just been found out today; we only found out today that the Albanese Labor government have said to the world that they do not support raising the age for criminal prosecutions. We only found out today that the Albanese Labor government have said to the world that they want to keep putting ten-year-old kids into jail, kids who still have their milk teeth. We only found that out today. We only found out today that there are more than 200 recommendations to fix Australia's human rights record that the Albanese Labor government have said no to. Do you know what one of them is? One of them is to introduce a human rights act—a human rights act that would protect the human rights of all Australians. It may not be to the flavour of Gina Rinehart. It may not be to the flavour of Labor's corporate donors to a human rights act in place, but it sure as heck—

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