Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senators Moore and Boyce, move:

That the Senate—

(a) recognises the role that carers play in our community, particularly family carers and acknowledges the over $40 billion of unpaid care that carers provide;

(b) celebrates the diversity of carers in our community, who may be caring for a spouse, a sibling, a parent or a child, and particularly recognises the contribution of our young carers; and

(c) calls on the Government to maintain its support of carers and ensure that its welfare reform process does not adversely affect carers or reduce their access to income support General business notice of motion No. 282 standing in my name and the name of Senator Moore for today relating to carers to be taken as a formal notion. Before I ask you to seek the agreement of the chamber, I would like to seek leave to amend the motion to add the name of Senator Boyce.

Question agreed to.