Senate debates

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Bills

Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017; In Committee

10:26 am

Photo of Louise PrattLouise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment and Water (Senate)) Share this | Hansard source

We will be supporting the Greens' amendments here, noting that we failed in our attempts yesterday in the Senate to have these very same significant issues recognised. We would support the Greens in their attempts to go some way to ameliorating these problems. We're very concerned that the government is failing to recognise the complex nature of substance abuse as a health condition and, indeed, the impact that that has on peoples' lives, including sickness, injury and eviction that can be associated with addiction.

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