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Senator ROBERTS (Queensland) (11:46): One Nation supports Senator Hanson-Young's amendment. This bill will have far-reaching impacts on Australia. It's not to be rushed through the parliament.

One Nation is the party of the natural environment and the party of the human environment. We want to give Australians a say. Workers, employers and small businesses—the parliament needs to listen to these people and give them a say.

I'd also like to now move my amendment to the motion for the adoption of the Selection of Bills report as circulated in the chamber. The PRESIDENT: Senator Roberts, you can't. We are dealing with Senator Hanson-Young's amendment at this point.

You can speak to your motion if you wish to, but you can't move it. Senator ROBERTS: Thank you. I will speak to it now, and that'll save us time later.

One Nation has moved to send the Fair Work Amendment (Baby Priya's) Bill 2025 to committee. The bill, as worded, allows employer paid parental leave for the parents of a baby who has been born still as a result of a termination or of a live birth abortion. Loss of a child due to natural circumstances is crushing, but where a child is terminated and born alive that child is cast away into a cold steel tin and left inhumanly to die from neglect in a bucket of cold steel.

This is what's going on our country. Alone, scared and suffering, the child dies a slow and terrifying death. This happens every few weeks in a hospital somewhere in Australia.

The mother's employer or the taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for 26 weeks paid leave for an aborted baby or neonatal murder—they should not. This is too important an issue to wave through parliament for social media likes and gender warfare points. A committee inquiry is needed to review this position and allow the public their say.

The people of Australia need to have an opportunity to have their say, and we need to listen. The PRESIDENT: I think you've got about three minutes, Senator Pocock.