Health

Motion

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [10.34 am] — without notice: I move —

That this house notes the 2016 Senate committee report on the “Growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme-like illness for many Australian patients” and calls on the government to establish an ongoing mechanism for ensuring that the Western Australian context is represented in the implementation of recommendations made in this report.

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [9.58 pm]: I rise to speak on what I thought were pretty horrifying reports that came out on Sunday about a young Aboriginal woman who in August last year was transported naked, while handcuffed and covered in her own menstrual blood, from Bandyup Women’s Prison to Graylands Hospital. This case raises so many issues. It serves to highlight the unacceptably high and growing rate of imprisonment of Aboriginal Western Australians, something that should concern every one of us.