Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Steele-John, for your question. The government, as I'm sure do all colleagues in this place, takes abuse and neglect of people with disability extremely seriously. The government is engaging in substantial reform to improve the treatment of people with disability. There have been, as colleagues are aware, a number of inquiries that have looked at issues of abuse and neglect of people with disability at both a federal and a state level.

As responsibility for specialist disability services shifts from the states and territories to a national system through the NDIS, the government has established new, significant and comprehensive safeguards in relation to abuse and neglect of people with disability. The government has committed $209 million to establish the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission—