Fatima Payman (WA, Australia's Voice) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) the Minister representing the Minister for Communications has failed to comply with order for the production of documents no. 37, agreed to on 28 July 2025, relating to the development of legislative instruments for the social media ban,

(ii) in a letter relating to a subsequent order requiring the tabling of an explanation of the basis for the minister's public interest immunity claim, the Minister for Communications advised that no further information is available regarding the claim, and

(iii) no further information has been provided since the Minister representing the Minister for Communications' attendance of the Senate on 29 October 2025; and

(b) requires that there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Communications, by 5 pm on 17 April 2026, any documents that would have been within the scope of the order and that were created between the initial response to the order on 13 August 2025 and 10 March 2026, inclusive.

Slade Brockman (WA, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question before the chair is that general business notice of motion No. 403 be agreed to.,