Anti-Poverty Week 2021 - Pink Hi-Vis Recovery

Today Abigail successfully moved a motion recognising this year's theme for Anti-Poverty Week as 'Pink Hi-Vis Recovery'.

Abigail moved that:

(1) That this House notes that:

(a) 17 to 23 October 2021 is National Anti-Poverty Week, a week that focuses on the need for governments to end poverty in Australia;

(b) in 2021, the NSW Council of Social Service [NCOSS] initiated the Pink Hi-Vis Recovery campaign; and

(c) according to the NCOSS's report, published in October 2021, entitled 'Rebuilding for Women's Economic Security—Investing in Social Housing in NSW':

(i) women were experiencing greater housing insecurity than men prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, and women's housing insecurity has worsened since the onset of the pandemic;

(ii) 61 per cent of job losses since May 2021 have been female jobs;

(iii) in New South Wales, women currently earn, on average, 14.5 per cent less than men, a gap that has remained largely unchanged over the last decade;

(iv) women head 63.5 per cent of single-adult households, but represent just 42.8 per cent of sole property owners;

(v) domestic and family violence is a key contributor to women's poverty experience, and women experiencing domestic and family violence typically experience financial stress, disability, unemployment, poor (physical and mental) health and insecure housing;

(vi) compared to 2014 levels, New South Wales has experienced a decline of 8,897 social housing units across the state;

(vii) there are currently up to 4,812 women across New South Wales either living with a violent partner or experiencing homelessness because of inadequate levels of social housing; and

(viii) to address the endemic shortage in social housing, 5,000 new social housing units need to be built now, which would deliver $4.5 billion in economic output and almost 14,000 jobs.

(2) That this House commends the Pink Hi-Vis Recovery campaign initiated by NCOSS, and calls on the Government to commit to sustainable and long-term funding for social housing construction, affordable housing, specialist domestic and family violence services and specialist homelessness services.

The full transcript can be found in Hansard, here.

TAX SUPERPROFITS TO PAY WORKERS MORE

NSW is missing out on tens of billions of dollars. By introducing a progressive coal royalty structure similar to the one in Queensland, we would have raised an extra $20 billion last year.

The NSW Government owns and controls, on behalf of the people of this state, the rights to the minerals and materials that naturally occur in NSW land.

Huge fossil fuel companies are only able to extract and sell these commodities with the consent of the State. It’s time they paid a fair price for that privilege.

The fossil fuel industry has made hundreds of billions of dollars out of their cosy relationship with governments. Granted permission to extract and sell coal, these large multinational fossil fuel corporations pay just over 7% in royalties back to the people of NSW – keeping the rest as mega-profits for themselves. These companies have a track record of taking more than their fair share and leaving communities suffering and stranded with poisoned groundwater, devastated landscapes and a stranded workforce when it suits their business models.

Globally, the hyper-inflation of fossil fuel prices driven by price-gouging opportunism and war profiteering from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has delivered record windfall profits to these already obscenely wealthy corporations. In the last year, NSW coal exports totaled over $70 billion dollars, but the people of NSW will only see about 7 cents in every dollar, or about $6 billion dollars of that amount.

Rather than going toward schools, hospitals and public infrastructure, billions of dollars went into the pockets of multinational mining corporations. The Greens believe there should be more money for schools and hospitals and less for mining billionaires.

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Anti-Poverty Week 2021 - Pink Hi-Vis Recovery

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