Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

On behalf of Senator O'Neill I move:

That the Senate—

(a) recognises that:

  (i) since the publication of the Education and Employment References Committee report, They never came home–the framework surrounding the prevention, investigation and prosecution of industrial deaths in Australia (the report), tabled on 17 October 2018, 183 workers have lost their lives in the workplace,

  (ii) 2019 featured a nearly 10% increase in the number of Australians fatally injured while working compared with 2018, and

  (iii) as of 13 February, 21 Australian workers have died on the job this year,

(b) congratulates the Victorian, ACT, Queensland and Northern Territory Governments for passing comprehensive industrial manslaughter laws; and

(c) calls on the Federal Government to:

  (i) act on the recommendations of the report, and

  (ii) implement a federal industrial manslaughter regime.