Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2021-11-30 Daily Xml

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Disability

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:51): Further supplementary: could the minister outline specifically what processes will measure that effectiveness? She has talked about she is ensuring the document will be out widely. How will she know whether it has actually been useful in improving, across the board, the reporting of persons with a disability?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:51): We are not going to be monitoring every single website known to the human race, but we will—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —be doing it on a case-by-case basis. This document gives us strength. There are articles that I could pull out of the system where, if we had a document to point to, we could have said to the authors of those documents, 'You should know better.' But I am more than happy, particularly when it relates to the Labor Party, when they once again—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —insult people with disability and demonstrate their ableness—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: —we will write to them and point out that they should use more appropriate language.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Pangallo.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order, on both sides! The minister should not have a—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! No conversations across the chamber.