Breaking down barriers for people with HIV/AIDS in our community

Abigail spoke about World Aids Day and the need for direct Government action to break down barriers that people with HIV/AIDS face every day.

Abigail said:

(1) That this House notes that:

(a) Wednesday 1 December 2021 is World AIDS Day, a day which pays respect to all people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, and raises awareness of the challenges, discrimination and marginalisation faced by people living with HIV; and

(b) this year's theme is Ending Inequalities, which highlights the urgent need for governments to take bold action against economic, social, cultural and legal inequalities that drive AIDS and other pandemics across the world, in line with our international commitment to end AIDS by 2030.

(2) That this House further notes that:

(a) the 2019 HIV Futures 9 study by La Trobe University found that, of those living with HIV, 25.7 per cent reported HIV-based discrimination in relation to health services, 25 per cent in relation to insurance, 18.8 per cent in relation to employment and 8 per cent in relation to accommodation; and

(b) according to a report by ACON entitled Ending HIV-Related Stigma For All, published in 2020, people living with HIV who are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, migrants, of colour, culturally and linguistically diverse, and/or transgender or gender diverse are disproportionately impacted by inequalities as well as discrimination.

(3) That this House calls on the New South Wales Government to commit to working toward breaking down barriers for people with HIV/AIDS in our community, and take immediate action through policy and practice to address the structural inequalities that obstruct solutions to prevention, treatment and support.

You can find the full transcript on 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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Breaking down barriers for people with HIV/AIDS in our community

TAX SUPERPROFITS TO PAY WORKERS MORE

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