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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that this week is Disability Awareness Week, and that 3 December 2016 is International Day of People with Disability;

(b) acknowledges the report of the Community Affairs References Committee into the violence, abuse and neglect suffered by people with disability in institutional and residential settings which was tabled on 25 November 2015;

(c) notes that disability abuse continues to be an issue of national shame; and

(d) calls on the Government to respond to the report and to commit to implementing the 30 recommendations of the report, including the recommendation for a royal commission.