Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Yesterday the Prime Minister announced an aged-care royal commission ahead of the ABC's Four Corners tonight. The Prime Minister was social services minister during a 2015 Senate inquiry into violence, abuse and neglect of disabled people in institutional and residential settings that recommended an urgent royal commission—something that the government has repeatedly refused to undertake. There have subsequently been 500 complaints to the national disability abuse hotline. Given the widespread violence, abuse and neglect of disabled people that is ongoing, why does this urgently needed royal commission not extend to disabled people?