Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2025

Senator THORPE (Victoria—Independent VIC Whip) (12:01): I will continue the list, because this is what this government has completely ignored. I don't know where your advice is coming from, but we have over a hundred legal and human rights experts that tell you that this is not okay. In terms of legal and policy experts, they are Caitlin Reiger, chief executive officer, Human Rights Law Centre; Kate Allingham, CEO of Economic Justice Australia; Kerry Weste, vice president and chair of children's rights, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights; Debbie Kilroy OAM, CEO of Sisters Inside; Cassandra Goldie, chief executive officer of ACOSS; Leo Patterson Ross, CEO of the Tenants' Union of NSW; Alison Battisson, director principal of Human Rights for All and Heretic Law; Judy Harrison, co-convenor of the National Regional, Rural, Remote and Very Remote Community Legal Network; Edwina MacDonald, chief strategy officer, ACOSS; Terese Edwards, Single Mother Families Australia; Sarah Marland, executive director, Community Legal Centres NSW; Jonathon Hunyor, CEO of the Justice and Equity Centre; Kira Levin, principal solicitor, Homeless Persons' Legal Service, Justice and Equity Centre; Ellen Tilbury, principal solicitor, Justice and Equity Centre; Kate Beaumont, executive officer, Welfare Rights & Advocacy Service WA; Antonio Gonzalez, welfare rights advocate, Fremantle CLC; Jonathan Hall Spence, principal solicitor, Justice and Equity Centre; Joanna Collins, CEO of Pilbara Community Legal Service; Louisa Stewart, principal solicitor, South Coast and Country Community Law; Karen Fletcher, executive officer, Flat Out Inc.; Stephanie Price, manager of Social Security Rights Victoria; Damian Stock, CEO of ARC Justice; James Farrell OAM, CEO, Basic Rights Queensland; Bronwyn Ambrogetti, managing solicitor, Hunter Community Legal Centre; Patrick O'Callaghan, Western NSW Community Legal Centre principal solicitor; JC Weliamuna, principal solicitor, Human Rights Law Program, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre; Benjamin Graham, principal solicitor, Central Coast Community Legal Centre; and Ashleigh Newnham, acting chief executive officer, South-East Monash Legal Service.

I move amendment (2) on sheet 3481: (2) Schedule 5, page 38 (line 1) to page 52 (line 11), to be opposed.