Workers Rights

Just as we did in the other place, the Greens will be strongly supporting the safer workplaces bill of 2024. We recognise it establishes a new offence of industrial manslaughter in the Work Health and Safety Act 2012, a new division in that act with the objects of the act to prevent workplace death, to deter people from breaching health and safety duties, and to reflect the severity of breaches of work health and safety duties - a duty of care that can lead to the death or serious injury of a worker.

It is very clear the Labor Party comprehensively, thoroughly consulted on this bill, multiple credible organisations, the example of other jurisdictions, including the Commonwealth. This is robust legislation.

We are the only jurisdiction in the country that does not have an industrial manslaughter framework in place.