Allegra Spender (Wentworth, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I table a petition.

Bridget Archer (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The document will be forwarded to the petitions committee for its consideration and will be accepted subject to confirmation by the committee that it conforms with the standing orders.

Allegra Spender (Wentworth, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you to the Leader of the House for facilitating the tabling of this petition. Violence against women in Australia is out of control. It has become a national emergency. The statistics should be shocking, but they're not. We have heard them over and over—

Bridget Archer (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! In accordance with standing order 193, the time for members' statements has concluded.