Backlash over Shortenâs âOompa-Loompaâ rant Bill Shorten has copped backlash for âdisappointingâ remarks where he labelled NDIS workers as âOompa-Loompasâ and âchimpanzees typingâ.
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Subscriber only Bill Shorten has copped backlash for disappointing remarks where he labelled National Disability Insurance Agency workers as Oompa-Loompas and chimpanzees typing . The Labor frontbencher made the comparison to the little orange workers from Willy Wonka s Chocolate Factory at a community forum in Geelong on Wednesday, where he claimed nuts red tape was preventing people with a disability from accessing services. This is bureaucracy gone crazy. If you want to vary an item by a couple of hundred dollars, you ve got a whole process, he said.
Backlash over Shortenâs âOompa-Loompaâ rant Bill Shorten has copped backlash for âdisappointingâ remarks where he labelled NDIS workers as âOompa-Loompasâ and âchimpanzees typingâ.
Politics by Finn McHugh
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Subscriber only Bill Shorten has copped backlash for disappointing remarks where he labelled National Disability Insurance Agency workers as Oompa-Loompas and chimpanzees typing . The Labor frontbencher made the comparison to the little orange workers from Willy Wonka s Chocolate Factory at a community forum in Geelong on Wednesday, where he claimed nuts red tape was preventing people with a disability from accessing services. This is bureaucracy gone crazy. If you want to vary an item by a couple of hundred dollars, you ve got a whole process, he said.
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The government has unveiled its much-anticipated reforms to strengthen privacy safeguards for witnesses at the disability royal commission, almost 18 months after the inquiry commenced.
Advocates have been calling for the changes to the Royal Commission Act for more than a year, warning that a loophole that allows the identity of witnesses to be released after the conclusion of the commission will stop potential whistleblowers from coming forward.
Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General, Amanda Stoker, introduced the Royal Commissions Amendment (Protection of Information) Bill in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon.
If passed, the amendments will allow certain witnesses who disclose instances of violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation to have their identity sealed indefinitely.
They warn that potential witnesses have been reluctant to come forward due to fear of retribution from disability support providers or employers.
In an open letter, published on Thursday, seven peak disability organisations said “time was running out” for people with disability to feel comfortable coming forward to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
The inquiry is scheduled to end in April next year.
Acting Attorney-General Michaelia Cash.
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Advocates are now urging acting Attorney-General Michaelia Cash to introduce the legislation in the next sitting of Federal Parliament, starting on Monday.
“Time is now running out for people with disability to tell their stories, and there are many who simply will not speak out until our privacy can be guaranteed,” People With Disability Australia chief executive Sebastian Zagarella said.