Cancel early sitting for dead Labor bill
15 January 2026
Anthony Albanese needs to cancel the early sitting of Parliament because his badly flawed hate Bill is now dead in the water.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said there was now little point in recalling Parliament to debate a dog’s breakfast of a Bill that will not be passed in its current form.

“Now that the Greens have declared their position there’s no compelling reason for Parliament to return early,” Senator Hanson said. “The Prime Minister should cancel the early sitting and save taxpayers a few million dollars in the process.

“Anthony Albanese has run out of friends. The atrocity at Bondi is defining his time in office: allowing rising antisemitism to go unchallenged and encouraging it by recognising Palestine, refusing to enforce existing laws against antisemitism and radical Islamist hate, and ignoring the recommendations of his own antisemitism envoy.

“This legislation has all the hallmarks of Albanese’s typical incompetence: unnecessary, potentially dangerous, ineffective and divisive. It’s been exposed. The Prime Minister has been exposed. The only thing he can do now is to cancel this early sitting.”

Senator Hanson said the Greens’ demands for the legislation were ludicrous.

“It wasn’t the LGBQTI community that was the target of radical Islamic terrorists at Bondi,” she said. “It’s not the LGBQTI community that is forced to attend worship or school under armed guard. It’s not the LGBQTI community which has been persecuted, threatened, doxed and assaulted by the pro-Palestine extremists.

“No, the people who have been crying out for support and for protection from these Greens-backed extremists are Jewish Australians. The LGBQTI community already has robust protections in other legislation.

“The Prime Minister’s legislation – even if it was passed – would not stop radical Islam and would not stop antisemitism. I’m glad the other parties in Parliament
have followed One Nation’s lead in opposing this absolute mess of a Bill. They should now join us in our call to cancel the early sitting.”
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