Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025

Senator SHOEBRIDGE (New South Wales) (10:49): by leave—At the request of Senator Thorpe, I move the second reading amendment standing in her name: At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate: (a) notes that: (i) far-right extremism now poses one of the greatest threats to community safety in this country, with a rising number of violent attacks explicitly targeting First Peoples, migrants and refugees over the past year; (ii) on 31 August 2025, far-right extremists, including members of the National Socialist Network, attacked Camp Sovereignty, a site of Aboriginal resistance and the sacred resting place for the ancestors of 38 Nations; (iii) on that day, neo-Nazis armed with weapons targeted and violently assaulted Aboriginal mothers, inflicting serious injuries that required hospitalisation; (iv) the attack on Camp Sovereignty is a continuation of the original violence and genocide perpetrated against First Peoples since invasion; (v) First Peoples, migrants and refugees, particularly women, bear the brunt of this violence; and (vi) the Government should be prioritising the very real threat of far-right terrorism happening here alongside threats from overseas; and (b) condemns: (i) the deliberate spread of racist and anti-immigrant narratives by politicians and media commentators that embolden far-right movements and normalise hate-fuelled violence; (ii) the hypocrisy of governments and commentators who condemn peaceful protest and political expression while remaining silent on racially motivated attacks committed by neo-Nazis against First Nations people and women; and (iii) the failure of the Government, the Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police to respond decisively and treat the Camp Sovereignty attack as both a terrorist attack and a hate crime; and (c) calls on the Government to: (i) immediately investigate the Camp Sovereignty attack as a hate crime and an act of far-right terrorism; and (ii) move without delay to list the National Socialist Network and other far-right neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organisations under the Criminal Code".

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator O'Sullivan ): The question is that the second reading amendment standing in the name of Senator Thorpe, as moved by Senator Shoebridge on her behalf, be agreed to.