Andrew McLachlan (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

I inform the Senate that the President has received the following letter, dated 26 February, from Senator Thorpe:

Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose to move "That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency:

The policing, surveillance, criminalisation, and detention of First Peoples children is a humanitarian crisis and the youth carceral system is operating in breach of this country's human rights obligations. Children need culture, country, connection, and family, not prisons. The billions spent on police, prisons and surveillance must be urgently re-invested into First Peoples self-determined community programs and services to provide appropriate wrap-around support to women, children, and families.

Is the proposal supported?

More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places—