Claire Clutterham
Sturt · Australian Labor Party · Australia
“Some in this House have asked: how many cups of coffee can you buy with the Albanese Labor government's 1 July 2026 tax cuts? But I ask: how many cups of coffee can you buy with the money that you save from seeing a GP for free?”
“The eSafety Commissioner has identified serious compliance concerns and is actively investigating five major platforms due to their noncompliance.”
“But we need action from the entire parliament, in this place and in the other place, for that to happen. I call on all members and senators to walk together to take this action. I do that because this issue is also deeply personal for me. In my first speech to this parliament, I spoke about my own experience of bullying at school.”
“One of the early scenes in the 2010 movie The Social Network depicted young women at Harvard recoiling in disgust as they discover a website created by one of their peers that allowed male students to compare them based on their so-called 'hotness'. The website was a precursor to what would become Facebook.”
“Social media is a part of the world they have always known, yet they were remarkably forthright about its downsides. They spoke about algorithms that keep them scrolling, the pressure to seek approval through likes and followers, and the impact social media was having on their confidence, self-esteem and mental health.”
“That is why keeping children safe online should be a bipartisan issue. When the Albanese Labor government introduced the social media minimum age of 16 last year, we did so because we listened to parents, educators, experts and young people.”
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“Attendees were provided with delicious cooked food, in order to fill them for a gentle exercise session, and were then given the opportunity to exercise their brains with an intense and good-natured game of bingo led by the bingo master. Most importantly, however, this partnership between the Dawoodi Bohras and the Morialta Uniting Church is a beautiful demonstration of interfaith connection. These groups look different, have different native languages, dress differently and practise quite different faiths, but they see the value in these differences and they have a special bond that I have had the privilege of witnessing several times. Despite these differences, they are firmly united in their dedication to serving others. The only thing I ever hear members of this unique group ask is this: What can I do for others?”
“Dawoodi Bohras are active advocates of goodwill and philanthropy and seek to help and uplift those less fortunate through their various philanthropic endeavours. This past Sunday, they organised the event at the Morialta Uniting Church, in order to provide information and support to 'silver members' of the community. The theme of this year's celebration of older persons was 'Older persons driving local and global action: our aspirations, our well-being and our rights', and, in this style, Nishreen and her colleagues organised for informative speakers to attend, to talk about aged-care advocacy and the importance of physical movement and exercising the brain.”
“On Sunday 5 October 2025, I celebrated the International Day of Older Persons at the Morialta Uniting Church at Magill in my electorate of Sturt. I celebrated with a special group of people, coming together not only to honour elderly members of our community—or 'silver members' as they were elegantly described. Members of the parish of the Morialta Uniting Church, led by Bruce and Reverend Anne Butler, partnered with the Dawoodi Bohra community, led by the effervescent and passionate Nishreen Adenwala and her husband, the bingo master, Zulficar Adenwala. There are approximately 40 Dawoodi Bohra communities across Australia, including a thriving and active one in Adelaide, and members, who are practising Muslims, adhere to the values of fraternity, peace and humanity.”
“Therefore, the proposed framework will retain the appropriate carve-outs for liability protections where officers engage in otherwise illegal behaviour not pursuant to an approved control operation and where their conduct is likely to cause the death or serious injury of a person or where their conduct would involve the commission of a sexual offence against a person. Without these amendments, law enforcement agencies will lack the confidence and agency to authorise and deploy controlled operations in online spaces, particularly as they relate to the investigation and disruption of child sexual abuse syndicates. In commending this bill to the House, I finish by again expressing my deepest gratitude to those who do this work in service to their fellow Australians.”
“A sobering statistic is that, in the 2023-2024 financial year alone, reports of online child exploitation to the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation increased by 45 per cent from the previous year. So officers doing this challenging and sometimes horrific work need to be able to do it without fear of personal liability. Full and fearless investigations are the only way these sorts of crimes can be investigated and the only way mitigation strategies to reduce or eliminate the further perpetration of these crimes can be implemented.”
“Authorising officers currently have insufficient guidelines as to the extent to which they are expected to foresee potential risks and not authorise or vary a controlled operation in the context of these risks. The amendments proposed by schedule 5 oblige authorising officers to consider the direct and reasonably foreseeable consequences of controlled conduct when authorising or burying a controlled operation instead of any conduct of third parties, as was the original intent of these thresholds. Critically, the proposed amendments set out in schedule 5 provide clearer legal protections for officers who are participating in undercover operations designed to disrupt and take down sexual abuse syndicates.”
“Controlled operations might include infiltrating serious and organised crime groups, identifying and rescuing victims of abuse or gathering evidence for the prosecution of serious offences, including in relation to online sexual abuse syndicates. Plainly, controlled operations involve serious risks and must therefore be appropriately safeguarded. The nature and development of the online world have meant the prevalence of the crimes committed while facilitated online is increasing. Perpetrators can hide on the internet, and they do so in sophisticated manners, making it difficult to gather information and difficult to assess the risks when determining whether a controlled operation should proceed or be varied.”
“Finally, there is schedule 5 to the bill. This schedule proposes amendments to the Crimes Act 1914 to clarify and strengthen safeguards in the controlled operations provisions framework. Pursuant to section 15GD of the Crimes Act: A controlled operation is an operation that: (a) involves the participation of law enforcement officers; and (b) is carried out for the purpose of obtaining evidence that may lead to the prosecution of a person for a serious Commonwealth offence or a serious State offence that has a federal aspect; and (c) may involve a law enforcement officer or other person in conduct that would, apart from section 15HA, constitute a Commonwealth offence or an offence against a law of a State or Territory.”
“The amendments proposed by schedule 4 to this bill will provide certainty that interception orders issued to Australian law enforcement and national security agencies may be used to obtain prospective content data from communications providers in a country with which Australia has a designated international agreement, regardless of the technical method by which that prospective data is sent to the agency. In plain language, these amendments will make the international production order regime more technology neutral, ensuring that Australian agencies' use of these powers is available to request access to communications held by a US communications provider now and into the future, regardless of the technical methods that those providers use to access communications, all subject to the current safeguards in the framework.”
“These arrangements operate to improve the overall effectiveness of Australian and United States investigations and prosecutions of serious crimes. An international production order can be issued for the purpose of enforcing criminal law to monitor persons subject to supervisory orders and for national security reasons. Information that is covered by an international production order includes live and stored communications and telecommunications data. Examples include files uploaded to a storage or backup service, emails and chat history, in addition to the related information to those communications. International production orders are an important tool in the toolbox that Australia has at its disposal to prosecute serious crimes.”
“Moving to schedule 4 to the bill, this schedule operates to amend the international production order framework in the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, with the motivation for the amendment being to give effect to the original intent of this regime. The international production order framework in that act is found in schedule 1. It is a framework that permits Australia to enter into agreements with other countries to share electronic information for the purposes of countering serious crime. An example is the Australia-US data access agreement signed in 2021, which facilitates Australian and United States law enforcement and national security agencies to obtain orders for data held by communication service providers in the partner nation without the need for separate review and authorisation.”
“This crossover is occurring because technological advancements are facilitating it. That being the case in these circumstances, and because of this indistinguishability, access to stored communications cannot be avoided. That is why agencies require authorisation to access both live communications and stored communications for testing and development purposes. Stored communications that are accessed for this purpose will follow authorisation from the Attorney-General and can be used only for that purpose and for no other purpose. Importantly, they cannot be used for intelligence purposes, investigative purposes or anything else. As for this ring fenced purpose, stored communications that are accessed pursuant to this schedule 3 amendment will be treated no differently to live communications.”
“Specifically, the Attorney-General will be empowered to authorise agencies to access communications that are stored in like circumstances where they would have been authorised to intercept these communications when they were live, but only for the purpose of developing and testing technologies and interception capabilities. The difference this amendment makes is that currently only live communications can be used by agencies for testing and development purposes. Stored communications may pass over the telecommunications system alongside live communications. At the point of interception, these stored communications are indistinguishable from live communications—for example, when emails are synced between two devices at the same time as messages are being transmitted between them.”
“The Communications Access Coordinator is responsible for liaising between state and Commonwealth security and law enforcement agencies, the Commonwealth telecommunications regulator and the telecommunications industry. It is a function that also supports industry to understand and comply with relevant interception capability obligations under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. Moving to schedule 3, these amendments are technical in nature and apply to that same act to ensure that the framework for testing and developing technologies and interception capabilities can operate in the manner that parliament intended. They are designed to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to facilitate the proper development and testing of new capabilities by intelligence and law enforcement agencies.”
“Quite understandably and quite rightly, disclosure of this information will remain limited and subject to strict safeguards, but these amendments deliver the required clarity so that the Commonwealth can provide necessary information to facilitate the defensible prosecution of serious criminal activity. Then we have the amendments set out in schedule 2, which relate to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. This amendment seeks to transfer the regulatory role of the Communications Access Coordinator from the Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department to the Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs. It does this to reflect postelection machinery-of-government changes.”
“This current regime prohibits disclosure of information obtained pursuant to a network activity warrant, which not only limits the prosecution but presents an access-to-justice issue in that individuals may be denied the opportunity to receive a fair trial. This is because those individuals in relation to whom information is obtained pursuant to a network activity warrant do not currently have access to it, which is unfair if the evidence and information obtained through these warrants may assist those people in their own defence. So these changes promote the Commonwealth's compliance with the duty of disclosure that it owes to courts in relation to network activity warrant information.”
“The amendments are set out in the various schedules to the bill. Firstly, schedule 1 sets out the proposed amendments to the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 and the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. The amendments have the effect of enabling agencies and prosecutors to disclose information obtained under network activity warrants for the purposes of complying with their disclosure obligations in a prosecution for a relevant offence. For clarity, network activity warrants are used for the collection of intelligence that relates to criminal networks operating online. Without these amendments, the current disclosure arrangements would remain in place.”
“This bill, the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, sets forth a number of very technical amendments that recognise that we are in an era of rapid and constantly changing and evolving technological and cyber development and that law enforcement agencies are being expected to operate in this challenging environment whilst remaining charged with the very serious obligation to protect Australians. More specifically, this bill makes technical amendments to the Surveillance Devices Act 2004, the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 and the Crimes Act 1914. These amendments are required to clarify or correct provisions in Australia's electronic surveillance and law enforcement frameworks, particularly when they have been rendered less effective due to technological change.”
“I wish to begin this speech by acknowledging the outstanding work of the individual Australians who work for our security agencies. Often faced with challenging, complex and disturbing situations, these Australians turn up to work every day in order to serve their fellow countrymen and countrywomen by taking steps to keep us safe, to investigate matters and to ensure that perpetrators of horrific offences can be brought to justice and that the victims of these offences feel heard and can try to move forward with their lives in the knowledge that action is being taken to prevent the same things happening to others.”
“The bill introduces amendments to part 6 of the Telecommunications Act to make compliance mandatory, which removes the need for ACMA to direct a particular participant to comply with the code in the first instance. This bill also builds on the work that the Albanese government has delivered since coming to office in 2022, including a new industry standard requiring telecommunications companies to support and assist consumers experiencing domestic, sexual and family violence. This bill is designed to increase levels of public trust in Australia's telecommunications system by further empowering the regulator to take meaningful action in relation to specific and clearly defined instances of noncompliance.”
“Currently, it cannot take direct enforcement action for breaches of the industry codes it has registered under part 6 of the Telecommunications Act, no matter how egregious the breach is, because, under this act, compliance with industry codes is initially technically voluntary. Part 6 of the act prescribes that bodies and associations representing sectors of the telecommunication industry may develop industry codes, that industry codes may be registered by ACMA and that compliance with an industry code is voluntary unless ACMA directs a particular participant to so comply. So, currently, if a breach is found, ACMA can either direct a provider to comply with the code or issue a formal warning.”
“Importantly, ACMA's power to exclude CSPs from the market is expected to be used as a measure of last resort only, with suitable arrangements for the review of a decision, re-registration avenues and, critically, the maintenance of connectivity for impacted consumers, because we know that connectivity that is as uninterrupted as possible is necessary for everyone. This reform means that carriage service providers that are doing the wrong thing will face consequences and that consumers will be better protected. Importantly, this bill also makes telecommunications industry codes directly enforceable by ACMA, incentivising industry compliance and enabling ACMA to take swift action to address consumer harm.”
“The bill also establishes a carriage service provider registration scheme to increase visibility of carriage service providers operating in the market and stop the operation of unprincipled CSPs, who pose an unacceptable risk to consumers or cause significant harm. The amendments to the Telecommunications Act of 1997 will empower ACMA to stop CSPs who do pose this unacceptable risk from operating in the market. This will provide a further deterrent for significant noncompliance and will increase consumer trust in registered CSPs, including new or smaller CSPs.”
“Currently the civil penalties for breaches of industry codes and standards are not a deterrent. They are not commensurate with the harm caused. They are not high enough to deter noncompliance. The amendments will also modernise the penalty framework for industry codes, industry standards and service provider determination to allow for penalties based on the value of the benefit obtained from the non-compliant conduct. This penalty framework better aligns with those in other relevant sectors like energy and banking and, under the Australian Consumer Law, more adequately reflects the telecommunications market and, in fairness, the varying sizes of the entities engaged in the market, which range from small to medium businesses to very large corporations. This is an appropriately described discretionary option for the Federal Court.”
“It is so important, in that it will equip the telecommunications industry regulator with the tools and powers it needs to protect Australian consumers and to carry out its remit, so Australian consumers do not fall foul of poor and harmful telecommunications practices. Some of the measures this bill proposes include increasing the quantum of civil penalties that can be issued by the Federal Court for breaches of industry codes and standards. This is being increased by 40 times, from $250,000 to nearly $10 million, because bigger deterrents are needed. The bill also modernises the civil penalties framework to give the Federal Court options in relation to issuing fines for regulatory breaches. This can include three times the benefit gained from the regulatory breach, $10 million or 30 per cent of organisation turnover.”
“In carrying out this function, ACMA collects information, consults about issues related to compliance and then assesses the level of risk. More specifically, in doing this, ACMA consults with consumer interest groups; analyses industry complaints data; commissions studies and publishes reports about telecommunications safeguards or the telecommunications consumer experience; provides compliance information to industry; undertakes compliance assessment; investigates serious, repeated and systemic noncompliance, which could be referred to ACMA by external parties or identified by ACMA itself; and takes enforcement action where warranted. Australians need and deserve for ACMA to have this remit so that they are protected when utilising essential telecommunications services. That's where we get to this bill.”
“They include rules about customer identity authentication, rules about assisting law enforcement and security agencies with their work and rules for priority assistance services, which relate to landline services for people with life-threatening medical conditions. Telecommunications companies providing these services must meet the rules for the faster repairing of faults and the timeframes for connection of new services and must make arrangements for more reliable service. With respect to consumer protections, ACMA also takes action in relation to telecommunications to ensure that companies that are delivering mobile, landline and internet services follow laws that are applicable to them and that are directly relevant to the protection of consumers.”
“There can be no reasonable argument against the proposition that Australians deserve for these types of infringements to be investigated, called out and then rectified. Finally, ACMA's remit also includes telecommunications compliance and investigations, the premise of which is that telecommunications companies must follow certain laws when delivering mobile, landline, internet and NBN services to the Australian public. These laws cover matters including the details and words that advertisements must and must not contain and how telecommunications companies must handle complaints when complaints are made to them.”
“They also include where providers have sent marketing emails and SMSs without consent and without a functional unsubscribe facility and where they have failed to confirm that a person requesting a high-risk customer transaction was in fact the customer or customer's authorised representative, in that there was a failure to use an applicable identity authentication process prior to undertaking the high-risk transaction. There have also been infringement notices where organisations have failed to comply with billing accuracy rules as set out in the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code by not being able to provide, verify and demonstrate accuracy of bills to customers.”
“Then it issues infringement notices under several pieces of legislation, including the Do Not Call Register Act 2006, Spam Act, Telecommunications Act, Broadcasting Services Act and telecommunications and radiocommunications regulations. The remit is extremely large, and this regime is designed with purpose to facilitate compliance with these important pieces of legislation and regulations, because they regulate telecommunications connectivity, which all Australians need and which must be fair, trustworthy and accountable. The types of infringement notices ACMA has issued include where organisations have failed to undertake adequate identity checks when porting consumers' mobile numbers from other telecommunications companies.”
“Thirdly, with respect to radiocommunications and telecommunications compliance and investigations, ACMA investigates licensing, interference management device supply arrangements, customer equipment and cabling compliance, media control and ownership compliance and other investigations which also form part of ACMA's remit, which means, in broad terms, ACMA's power to require rectification in circumstances of breaches of statutory control, media diversity or directorship rules. These investigations may require the production of documents, the examination of witnesses or the holding of public hearings. In addition, ACMA also accepts enforceable undertakings under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, the Telecommunications Act 1997, the Spam Act 2003, the Radiocommunications Act 1992 and Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014.”
“These complaints and problems may relate to a number of different areas—firstly, broadcasting compliance and investigations, which are investigations into TV, radio and online content, and the rules about what broadcasters can show on TV and radio. Secondly, ACMA considers telemarketing and scam compliance and investigations, which, in very broad terms, relate to breaches of the law as they concern the sending of marketing emails or messages.”
“The authority of ACMA is the authority that makes decisions on matters of importance for ACMA, including with respect to telecommunications consumer issues. Covering the internet, telephones, TV, radio and content, spectrum and equipment compliance, the Australian Communications and Media Authority sets and manages rules about communications, media services and markets. It provides licences for people, organisations and products to operate in Australia. It plans and manages the airwaves to make space for new services and technology, such as 5G, and it also considers complaints and problems and takes action when rules are not being followed.”
“It's fair to say that, without telecommunications connectivity, living life would be very difficult. Telecommunications connectivity is required to participate in family and personal life, in education, in sport, in business and, importantly, in the community. Therefore, no matter where you live, connection is fundamental. Because of the widespread role telecommunications connectivity plays for all of us, a system that is fair, accountable and built on trust is critical for Australia. The Australian Communications and Media Authority is the regulator of this sector, acting to regulate communications and media with the purpose of maximising the economic and social benefits that communications infrastructure, services and content bring to all Australians.”
“The continued promotion and meaningful utilisation of First Nations knowledge and land management is absolutely critical in protecting and managing our environment. It is critical for sustainability and for the future of our country. Although a minor amendment on paper, this bill is significant in its acknowledgement and continued support of the unquantifiable value of First Nations knowledge of how to care for country.”
“Rayne explained to me that Indigenous knowledge of fire-management techniques is such that, in preparation for bushfire season, a cultural burn is conducted using small, low-intensity fires, known as 'cool burns', to clear undergrowth, reduce fuel and manage the landscape. This technique of low and slow cool burns creates natural fire breaks that allow animals to escape and that promote biodiversity by encouraging the regrowth of plants and then the return of animals to their natural habitat. This low and slow cool burn technique of gentle and managed fires that can halt the spread of larger, uncontrolled fires and cool the earth has been practised for thousands and thousands of years.”
“Firesticks is an Indigenous led not-for-profit enterprise and registered charity that supports a growing national network of Indigenous communities and practitioners by promoting the revitalisation and use of traditional knowledge systems and practices, particularly culture fire-burning to improve country and community health and wellbeing. Rayne has a background in the banking industry, but, after doing that for 15 years, he decided to start a journey that was much more meaningful to him—a journey which has its foundations in revitalising traditional land-management practices within his community. Embracing the teachings of elders and collaborating with fellow Kaurna men and women, Rayne has integrated traditional fire-management techniques into his approach to work and life.”
“I was fortunate to be able to attend the unveiling of this sculpture in June 2025 as part of Reconciliation Week, which had the theme 'Bridging Now to Next', reflecting the ongoing connection between past, present and future. I was able to meet Allan, who is a prominent artist in Adelaide with his meaningful work displayed across the electorate of Sturt, at the Morialta adventure playground and in the Kensington reserve, as well as at Burnside. Allan's work also adorns football and soccer jerseys and can even be seen on the side of Adelaide Metro buses. Allan's art celebrates connection to country and celebrates First Nations knowledge and care of country. At the Burnside Tamikur u Sculpture unveiling, I also met Rayne Simpson, who is the Regional Coordinator for Kaurna, South Australia, for an organisation called Firesticks.”
“We know that land management is not just environmental but deeply spiritual. It's about health and wellbeing of country but also the health and wellbeing of those who are privileged enough to live on country. We know that land management also involves threat management, which is traditional methods that are effective in managing threats like feral animals and weeds that threaten native plants and creating fire breaks, which protect land, people and threatened species. The Burnside city council, located in my electorate of Sturt, is home to several public sculptures, including the newly unveiled Burnside Tamikuru S culpture by artist Allan Sumner. Allan is a descendent of Ngarrindjeri people, who come from the lower Murray and the lakes of the Murray River along the Coorong of South Australia.”
“It supports the improved relationship between the Australian government, the Director of National Parks and traditional owners of jointly managed Commonwealth reserves, which remains a priority for this government. The bill will support the effective participation of Indigenous people in matters relating to the management of their country, support continuity of decision-making and enable consistency of governance arrangements for Commonwealth reserve management. We know that First Nations knowledge of land management has been curated over tens of thousands of years. We know it was and continues to be developed by observing country, including cultural burning, traditional fishing, water management, plant harvesting and rock-wall construction, in order to regenerate ecosystems and manage resources.”
“This bill will bridge any gap between a management plan for a jointly managed Commonwealth reserve expiring and a new management plan coming into effect. The bill, therefore, will allow the board to continue making decisions after a management plan expires, provided those decisions are consistent with the expired management plan—just as they would have been consistent with the management plan whilst it was afoot. This is a sensible and reasonable change that will maintain the board's decision-making ability until a new management plan comes into effect. The bill aligns with the Albanese Labor government's commitment to provide traditional owners with greater control over management of their country.”
“A board of management is appointed by the minister and comprises a majority of Indigenous people nominated by traditional owners. Each of the boards of management is currently chaired by a traditional owner, and these boards are responsible for making decisions about the management of the Commonwealth reserves. However, the ability to make decisions stops when a management plan expires. Management plans are legislative instruments that outline how a Commonwealth reserve is to be managed and protected and expire after 10 years, unless revoked earlier. Without this bill, when a management plan expires, the decision-making functions of the board will cease. If that occurs, the role of traditional owners in the decision-making process is compromised, reducing that critical involvement in the management of their land.”
“It was illustrative that, as well as the cost of living, the most frequent questions asked of us as candidates related to the environment, including about reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and, importantly, the role of First Nations knowledge of the lands on which we live and work and how that must be deployed in ongoing initiatives to sustain our environment. The minor amendment this bill proposes would allow a board of management for a jointly managed Commonwealth reserve such as Booderee, Uluru-Kata Tjuta and Kakadu to continue to make decisions regarding the management of the reserves after a management plan expires. These reserves are managed by the Director of National Parks under a lease with the traditional owners and through a board of management.”
“The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Board of Management Functions) Bill 2025 on which I speak today operates to affect a minor amendment to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. It is not part of the broad and far-reaching environmental law reform agenda that the Albanese Labor government is working on and deeply committed to delivering. During the election campaign for the seat of Sturt, my fellow candidates and I participated in five candidate debates.”
“Booderee National Park is located in Jervis Bay and is managed as an Indigenous protected area. Located just three hours from both Sydney and Canberra, it is a park with unspoilt beaches, incredible flora and fauna and hundreds of kilometres of walking tracks. Booderee really is one of Australia's most stunning national parks, where crystal clear waters meet beautiful white sandy beaches and high cliffs and historic relics overlook the majestic Pacific Ocean. The traditional owners of the remarkable lands I have described, Booderee National Park and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and Kakadu National Park are actively involved in the protection of the environment through participation in the management of their land. They are spaces which both sustain and share the experience of Australia's biodiversity and cultural landscapes.”
“Aboriginal people have been the custodians of Kakadu for 60,000 years. Kakadu is fully protected by the EPBC Act and is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is also in the Northern Territory. It is a protected area that is home to Uluru and Kata Tjuta. It is almost 2,000 kilometres south of Darwin and 440 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs. It covers just over 1,300 square kilometres and is also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. One of Australia's most iconic landmarks Uluru is a focal point for the world's acknowledgement of Australia's Indigenous culture. The Anangu people are the traditional owners of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, where, for thousands of years, they have cared for the rare and endemic flora in the park as well as the now rare and endangered species there.”
“Our jointly managed Commonwealth reserves—Kakadu National Park, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and Booderee National Park—are located on Aboriginal land. Kakadu National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia. South-east of Darwin, it covers an area just shy of 20,000 kilometres, which is actually the size of the country of Wales. Kakadu is the second-largest national park in Australia. It is highly diverse from an ecological and biological perspective, hosting a wide range of habitats, flora and fauna. It is home to four major river systems: the East Alligator River, the West Alligator River, the South Alligator River and the Wildman River. It also includes a rich heritage of Aboriginal rock art, including highly significant sites such as Ubirr.”
“First Nations knowledge of the land, of land management and of sustainability is more important than ever. This knowledge includes ecological knowledge, medicinal knowledge, environmental management knowledge, and cultural and spiritual knowledge. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have cared for this country and have played, and continue to play, a momentous role in sculpting the environment and supporting the incredible, distinctive and unique biodiversity we experience in Australia today. The knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their connection to place and their cultural practices have long contributed to the positive environmental outcomes that benefit all Australians.”
“First Nations peoples have been the custodians of this great land for tens of thousands of years. Today we meet on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country, and I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging. My electorate of Sturt is on Kaurna land, the traditional lands of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. The Kaurna people have been the custodians of this land for 60,000 years. This land stretches from Cape Jervis in the south to Crystal Brook in the north and from the Mount Lofty Ranges all the way to the coast of the Gulf of St Vincent. The Kaurna people have a deep and lasting spiritual relationship with this land and its waters. Their cultural heritage, belief and relationship with the land continue to be important today. So, to any Kaurna people here today, I say niina marni and ngaityalya.”
“Contraceptives and fertility drugs being listed on the same day underscores the unique and complex nature of women's health. Women's health matters. This government knows that women's health is an economic imperative as well as a health imperative, and Australians know this too. The announcement of investment in women's health was embraced by women and it was embraced by men, because, like women, men know that, when women are healthy, families are better off, the economy is more productive and there is more contribution to communities. Women are being heard by this government, and this government says to the girls and women of Australia, 'Say yes to you.'”