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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Housing and Disability Services, Senator Fifield. Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a day which not only recognises the four million disabled Australians and the contribution we make but also acknowledges that we still face discrimination at all levels of society, including in employment, education and social participation. Minister, it is in this spirit of dual recognition that I first draw your attention to one of the most horrific ways in which this discrimination manifests itself. I talk, of course, of the violence, abuse and neglect we are so often subjected to. In the light of the 184 incidents of violence, abuse and neglect which have been reported to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, will the government now commit to establishing a royal commission into the violence, abuse and neglect of disabled people in institutional and residential settings?