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

I'm just indicating that the Greens won't be supporting these amendments. Those on CDP have a hard enough time at the moment, as it is, without forcing more compliance regime measures on them. The program needs urgent reform. We saw the latest list of penalties applied to those in remote communities. So my advice to Senator Leyonhjelm would be: join us in calling on the government to change CDP. That is a completely separate program for Aboriginal people that is disproportionately impacting on a section of our community and causing huge detrimental impacts. So, no, we won't be supporting these amendments that have the potential to cause even further harm to those people who are stuck on CDP.