Rachel Siewert WA, Australian Greens
4:07 pm
I move:
That the Senate—
(a) notes that three United Nations human rights experts have urged the Parliament of Western Australia not to adopt new anti-protest laws which would criminalise legitimate protests, including those by environmentalists and human rights defenders;
(b) recognises the important role public protest and free speech have played, and continue to play, in a healthy democratic society; and
(c) calls on the Government of Western Australia to abandon these divisive and unnecessary laws.
Question agreed to.