Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Omnibus No. 1) Bill 2026

Senator GREEN (Queensland—Assistant Minister for Tourism, Assistant Minister for Pacific Island Affairs and Assistant Minister for Northern Australia) (10:52): I'll just make a number of points. That's not the suggestion that I've made. We are working around that sunsetting date that's been proposed to ensure that the new framework can be in place, that it's gone through parliament and that it commences.

We do recognise that it is complex. I just wanted to make a couple of points, though, about your political commentary. It is not fair to say that the Attorney-General's Department has not undertaken legislative reform.

As the former chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee over three years, they kept us very busy with important reform. You might not view things like the Criminal Code amendment on deepfake sexual material important or— Senator Shoebridge: No prosecutions. Senator GREEN: Well, you might not think that that's important, but I can tell you that it's incredibly important, particularly to Australian women.

You might not think that the reforms that this government made on improving the family law system are consequential in any way or some of the work that we've done around improving our national security, banning state sponsored terrorists. This is complex legal work. I just think your constant diminishing of public servants who serve our country and do really difficult work in an increasingly complex environment, particularly around national security, demeans you and not them.

We understand your sense of urgency to progress these reforms. We have undertaken extensive work already and we will continue to do that, but to dismiss this as a simple 'switcheroo' of provisions is nonsense. Quite frankly, the government and, I would suggest, the opposition are not going to take any type of national security advice from the Greens.