End Violence Against People with Disability

Today in Parliament, Abigail gave notice of a motion calling on the NSW Government to enforce an action plan to end violence against people living with disability.

Abigail said:

I give notice that on the next sitting day I will move:

(1) That this House notes that on 7 September 2023, Children and Young People with Disability Australia, Disability Advocacy Network Australia, First Peoples Disability Network Australia, Inclusion Australia, National Ethnic Disability Alliance, People with Disability Australia, and Women with Disabilities Australia launched the “End the Violence” campaign, a cross-organisation action plan to end violence against people with disability, which:

outlines some of the urgent actions government can take to demonstrate their commitment to people with disability,
notes that violence, harassment and abuse affects people with disability at a far higher rate than people without disability, is significantly underreported by people with disability, and that this abuse often is perpetrated through health and disability services, dealing with government organisations and engaging with the criminal justice system,
notes that urgent and widespread government action is needed to ensure that people with disability are able to live with dignity and safety in their everyday lives and when accessing services and supports,
calls for system reform to ensure accessible, responsive and accountable protocols and procedures to investigate, respond to and act on instances of violence, harassment and abuse,
calls for funding for frontline support to make sure people with disability are aware of their rights and supported to take action and report violence, harassment and abuse when it happens to them, and
calls for programs to be established to tackle the sources of violence and address the practices that allow this systematic violence to occur.

(2) That this House calls on the NSW Government to enforce this action plan and support the calls to action in full.

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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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