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

I was so happy when the ALP finally saw the light and agreed that we needed a royal commission into the violence and abuse and neglect of people with disability. We had a Senate inquiry into this issue which strongly recommended first a royal commission. The ALP did not pick that up at that time, despite the overwhelming evidence that we need a royal commission to look into and to investigate the violence and abuse and neglect of people with a disability. I find it simply gobsmackingly hypocritical for them to stand up and claim that the Greens are finally following them. Please give us a break. It is yet another one of the issues where the Australian Labor Party have come on board with the Greens. Royal commission into banking, ICAC—I could go on and on.