Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [5.26 pm]: I rise tonight to make some comments about the commonwealth redress scheme, which has an implication for this state. Members may know that on 26 October, legislation was introduced into the Australian Parliament to establish a commonwealth redress scheme for institutional child sexual abuse. The establishment of a commonwealth redress scheme was one of the many recommendations that has come out of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [6.24 pm]: I rise tonight to speak about the urgent humanitarian crisis that is currently occurring on Manus Island. The crisis has effectively been created by the federal government, and I point the finger specifically at Peter Dutton. Australia’s Manus Island prison, which was reopened by the Labor government and has been run very punitively under the current government, has long been a human rights disaster. However, it is now an escalating human rights emergency.