Nita Green (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We understand that this motion and the putting forward of this senator's bill, the Childhood Gender Transition Prohibition Bill 2023, and the request for it to go to an inquiry is put forward by those opposite couched in reasonable terms and using what sounds like reasonable language. But we know that the motivation for this is to have a public debate about some very serious issues that could have a very serious impact on some very vulnerable young people. And I want that to be made very clear. That is what we are talking about in this place. This bill is a stunt, and this inquiry would be a stunt as well. It demonstrates yet again that Peter Dutton and the LNP are absolutely hell-bent on division and—