I express my solidarity with the women of Poland who engaged in a public strike on Monday to register their justified opposition to the measures being debated in the Polish Parliament to further restrict access to abortion in a country that already placed significant barriers in the way of women who needed to access an abortion. It is unacceptable that an abortion access regime that already only allows abortion where a pregnancy carries a risk to health or life or results from rape or incest, or where there is a fatal foetal abnormality, should need to be tightened. It is cruel and degrading and I applaud Polish women across 60 cities for the strike action in which they engaged on Monday.

I also express solidarity with the kids who are outside protesting today. They are very vibrant and screaming and hanging off the railings, all aged about six or seven years. They are protesting about the school for which they have been waiting ten years to be built, which is called St. Mochta's. I would like other Senators to go out and support them.