Senator SHOEBRIDGE: They're probably sending it here because it's the only spot they can get the maintenance done, because their maintenance program—their resources, their skill base and their industrial base—isn't working in the UK. You surely know that one of their ships has been in dock for seven years. You surely know that, at multiple times in the last 12 months, they've only had one or two n

Senator WATERS ( Queensland — Leader of the Australian Greens ) ( 15:42 ): I move: That the Senate take note of answers to questions that I asked of the Minister representing the Treasurer. From the moment that Trump and Netanyahu's war began, fuel companies started jacking up their prices, increasing the price of fuel that they already had in their tanks. There was no shortage of petrol or diesel

Senator SHOEBRIDGE ( New South Wales ) ( 11:06 ): I listened carefully to Foreign Minister Wong's justification for Labor's support for this illegal war by the United States and Israel. It was a masterclass in doublespeak and hypocrisy. Foreign Minister Wong commenced by saying that the first priority of the Australian government is to keep Australians safe. Well, isn't it remarkable that Labor ha

Senator SHOEBRIDGE ( New South Wales ) ( 12:30 ): I seek leave to move a motion relating to the proposed Australian military deployment to the Middle East as circulated. Leave not granted. Senator SHOEBRIDGE: Pursuant to contingent notice, standing in the name of Senator Waters, I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me from moving a motion to provide for the con

Senator WHISH-WILSON ( Tasmania ) ( 15:41 ): At the request of Senator Shoebridge, I move: That the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulations 2025, made under the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Act 2024 , be disallowed [F2025L01226]. These regulations allow the US to bring their nuclear submarines to Australia as part of the toxic and bankrupting AUKUS agreement. This regulation its

Senator McKIM ( Tasmania — Australian Greens Whip ) ( 16:03 ): Obviously, the Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulations allow the United States to bring their nuclear submarines to Australia as part of the toxic AUKUS agreement. Who can forget former prime minister Scott Morrison telling a lie to the French government as he did the dirty on them and instead, in one of his most bizarre thought bubbles

Senator SHOEBRIDGE ( New South Wales ) ( 16:09 ): I thank both my colleagues for their very clear articulation in this debate. I might bring it back to AUKUS. We have Labor and the coalition, two of the three war parties here, joined now by One Nation. The three war parties love AUKUS. You all come in here and want to wrap your arms around AUKUS, you love nuclear submarines, you like being told wh

Senator SHOEBRIDGE ( New South Wales ) ( 13:54 ): Earlier this year, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney delivered these words: We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose

Senator WATERS ( Queensland — Leader of the Australian Greens ) ( 15:33 ): I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Prime Minister (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to the fossil fuel industry. More than 100 schoolgirls killed by a missile strike, a death toll mounting every single day now to over 800, hospitals bombed,

Senator SHOEBRIDGE ( New South Wales ) ( 19:11 ): At the request of Senator McKim, I move: That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency: That the US and Israeli attack on Iran is contrary to international law, that Australia is in breach of international law both by supporting this war and permitting US bases in Australia to support this war, and that as a middle power

Senator WATERS ( Queensland — Leader of the Australian Greens ) ( 11:15 ): This weekend, US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launched a new illegal bombing campaign against Iran, unilateral bombing in breach of international law— Senator Thorpe: She just called me a bitch. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Sharma ): Senator Thorpe, do you have a point of order? Senator Thor

Senator SHOEBRIDGE: Minister, can't you understand that, if the UK is to be a useful or reliable partner through AUKUS to deliver nuclear submarines, it should at least show some proven capacity to keep nuclear submarines in the water, at sea and deployed? The current meltdown in their maintenance and operational capacity of their nine nuclear submarines, where at different times none of them have

Senator SHOEBRIDGE: I might just introduce the different matter that I'm now going to. I've looked through the initial budget papers and then the updated budget papers for this financial year, and I looked at the nuclear-powered submarines budget expenditure. In the initial 2025-26 budget, the nuclear-powered submarine project had a total approved project expenditure of $15.448 billion. Then, in t

Senator SHARMA: Learning sustainment? Mr Walsh : Learning sustainment, working with the Americans. Six of those individuals transitioned back to Australia in December. Those are the first people who would have completed their training in America. Those individuals are now experienced in working in radiological control areas. They need to go through some additional training inside Australia to meet

Senator SHOEBRIDGE ( New South Wales ) ( 10:46 ): I rise on behalf of the Greens to oppose the Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee—'secret boys club'—on Defence) Bill 2025. This is a bill that just goes to show how broken the war parties and the status quo parties are in this parliament. They're setting up yet another dark, smoke-filled cigar room where those who get the tick of appro

Senator PAYMAN: Good afternoon. My questions are also related to WA. The WA government has announced that it will move port operations from Fremantle to Kwinana through the Westport project, right next to the proposed AUKUS submarine base. An article in the Australian in August said: Ships servicing the new facility, dubbed Westport, will navigate the same single channel Australian, US and UK nucl

Senator SHOEBRIDGE: These are the US's nuclear-capable sea-launched cruise missiles that they have committed to deploying in the next 12 months. Have you had any communications with the United States government about whether or not their sea-launched cruise missiles—which are nuclear capable, are greenlighted and are proposed to be deployable in the next 12 months—will be on those nuclear submarin

Senator SHOEBRIDGE: And we should just ignore what Lord Case says? We should just ignore that? Vice Adm. Mead : I reiterate my statement there. The UK MOD, the UK Submarine Delivery Agency and BAE—writ large, on the ground—are telling me that the delivery of SSN-AUKUS UK is on track. The fact that Lord Case said it is a demanding project—we totally agree with that. Of course it's a demanding proje

Senator SHOEBRIDGE ( New South Wales ) ( 12:04 ): I rise on behalf of the Greens to indicate we oppose the Customs Tariff Amendment (Geelong Treaty Implementation) Bill 2025, which follows on from the treaty signed between the UK and Australia on 26 July 2025 as part of AUKUS. If you want Australia to go and join the next US war, if you want Australia to spend billions of dollars trying to bail ou

Senator FARUQI ( New South Wales — Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens ) ( 16:19 ): I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to table an explanatory memorandum relating to the bill. Leave granted. Senator FARUQI: I table the explanatory memorandum, and I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard . Leave granted. The speech read as follows— I am h