Portfolio — 14 May 2026
Senator Nita Green carried the heaviest procedural load of the sitting day, steering five separate bills through second and third readings in the Senate. The most substantive contribution was her second-reading speech on the Survivors Law Bill 2026, which allows victims of child sexual abuse to access a perpetrator's superannuation and ensures compensation debts survive bankruptcy — closing a longstanding asset-concealment loophole.
She also advanced the Public and Educational Lending Rights (Better Income for Authors) Bill, which unifies two legacy lending-rights schemes and extends coverage to digital formats, with the scheme having paid over $28 million to creators in 2024–25. Across all bills, Senator Green consistently applied the 'non-controversial program' framing to expedite passage, signalling the government's preference for high-throughput, low-contest legislative processing on this sitting day.
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