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

My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General. Minister, the disability royal commission has been running since September of 2019 and many people and organisations have made submissions and shared their stories. However, there are a large group of disabled people who have not and cannot because the commission cannot currently guarantee their protection and confidentiality beyond the life of the commission. One person in particular springs to mind, a woman who is right at the beginning of her educational career and has suffered discrimination in that career, including in the school where she now works. She tells me that she will not tell her story until she can be assured that it won't in itself end her career. Will the Attorney-General apologise to people who have not been able to tell their stories because of his failure to act and do what he has been promising to do, which is introduce these protections to parliament which he has known about the need for since February of this year?