Senate Speeches

The amendments that I and other colleagues have moved through the committee stage have pretty much solely been focused on trying to improve the accountability, […]

We discussed at length last night the fact that, as drafted, this bill has only minimal regulatory oversight of these processes. Indeed, there isn’t really

 Just briefly, I want to respond to some of the, I think, errors or misinterpretations of this amendment in Senator Steele-John’s statement and to some

I want to quickly make a point in response to a point that was made. A point was made that somehow, in the future, we

 I want to very briefly respond to some of the further points that have been made. I think we should be very clear that, if

The Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021, as senators would realise, establishes five different types of licences. It effectively establishes two stages to