Online Safety Amendment (Strengthening Enforcement for the Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2026

Senator HANSON-YOUNG (South Australia—Manager of Australian Greens Business in the Senate) (18:38): I'd just like to ask the minister, in relation to the amendment that the government's had to put forward, whether the government now concedes that it was important to not ram this legislation through on the day, as you insisted, when it was introduced. There's been a lot of squawking about the purpose of sending this piece of legislation to a Senate inquiry, and the government's been pretty disrespectful to the process of the Senate.

I'm wondering, given that you've had to come and correct your own piece of legislation that corrects your own law, whether perhaps there could be an apology to the Senate.