My question is to the Minister for Workplace Relations. How is the Albanese Labor government helping to improve workplace health and safety for Australian workers?

I'd like to thank the member for Holt for that question and also her longstanding commitment to ensuring that Australian workers are safe. A central tenet of our work health and safety laws is that when you go to work you should come home safely, and each day more than 400 Australians are injured at work. This is clearly too many, and there's always more to do to ensure we keep workers safe from harm. All workers deserve to be free from physical and psychosocial injury, and, of course, violence or threats of violence at work risk both physical and psychosocial injury. We've been talking in the parliament today in our tribute to the member for Indi about the devastating consequences that this violence can have not only just on individuals but on families and communities.

Whether you are a public official, a frontline public service worker, a first responder, a retail worker, teacher, nurse, police officer or a doctor, everyone deserves a workplace free from abuse and free from violence. No worker should fear for their wellbeing because of the work they perform, and our government is taking steps to respond to these workplace hazards. Commonwealth protection orders came into force in May providing important protections for those providing frontline services for the Commonwealth. These orders strengthen the protection for frontline Commonwealth workers, such as Services Australia workers, and ensure that violence, threats and harassment do not invade their workplace unreasonably.

The Commonwealth is also taking steps to adopt Safe Work Australia's model laws for stronger reporting requirements for serious psychosocial workplace incidents and taking steps to strengthen the capacity for more effective preventable action. The government will also mandate that regulators are notified of serious workplace incidents, including workplace violence. The Commonwealth will be the first jurisdiction to take such a step.

Our government is also working collaboratively across jurisdictions through Safe Work Australia to progress joint action on critical work health and safety priorities. Together with the states and territories, we have tasked Safe Work Australia with conducting a best-practice review on their model work health and safety laws with an eye to strengthening them. Work plans are now being settled for Safe Work Australia which will help guide governments across Australia on how to best tackle emerging work health and safety challenges. These measures are an important part of the government's commitment to protect workers from harm. This includes strengthening the Model Work Health and Safety Act to clarify the duty of care for management of risks arising from harmful workplace behaviours.

Of course, there is still more to do to make Australians safer while on the job. I look forward to working across this parliament, with all states and territories, with business and with unions to ensure we advance this goal of ensuring all Australians return safely— (Time expired)