Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Data from the National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline has recently been published, revealing nearly 500 reports of abuse and neglect between July 2016 and June 2018. This adds to the multiple, detailed, ample evidence provided by the 2015 Senate inquiry into this issue. Minister, I have sent your counterpart letters. I have had conversations with you in public and in private. I have brought this matter up in the chamber many times—as have my colleagues before me, with your colleagues and before you. In light of this subsequent information, will the government now commit to a royal commission into the violent abuse and neglect of disabled people in institutional and residential settings?