Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Labor supports these amendments. The bill extends the confidentiality protections under the Royal Commissions Act to certain information given to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability—specifically, to the information given by individuals to the commission about their experiences of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. As the minister has made clear, those protections apply equally to accounts of a systemic nature. In other words, the confidentiality protections would not only apply to individual accounts but also to accounts of systemic violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. This is an important clarification and Labor thanks the government for moving these amendments.