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Speaker 1: So landmark ruling from the Supreme Court on Disability Rights.

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Speaker 1: The court has decided that parents who care for severely

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Speaker 1: disabled adult children should be legally recognized as homeworkers, which

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Speaker 1: then entitles them to minimum wage protections. Now, this case

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Speaker 1: was brought by two parents in this position. Jane Carrigan

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Speaker 1: is an independent disability advocate and with us morning Jane.

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Speaker 2: Are good morning here that how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. What's the outcome of this?

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Speaker 1: How many parents are going to be entitled now to

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Speaker 1: the minimum wage?

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Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, the important issue is they are

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Speaker 2: considered now considered employees of the Ministry of Health. So

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Speaker 2: it's not the minimum wage. I mean that's the bare

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Speaker 2: minimum they will get under it in terms of numbers. Look,

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Speaker 2: because it doesn't just apply to the exploitation, doesn't just

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Speaker 2: apply to parents of adult disabled children. It's across the board.

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Speaker 2: And so I would imagine that the number of families

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Speaker 2: who are talking about would be roughly ten thousand. That's

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Speaker 2: ten thousand families who have to give up work and

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Speaker 2: provide twenty four to seven care for often very high

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Speaker 2: needs adult adult family members. So yeah, so it's a

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Speaker 2: sizable number and yeah, I'm hoping that the government will

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Speaker 2: not do what it's previously done and rush off and

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Speaker 2: an acts of madness, implemented legislation that ultimately they've had

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Speaker 2: to repeal and concede, have conceded have been appalling legislation

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Speaker 2: and the circumstances, so hopefully common sense will prevail and

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Speaker 2: we can have some good conversations with government. And because

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Speaker 2: this isn't just about money, we're here because the government

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Speaker 2: will the public servants of the day have ignored the

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Speaker 2: last three Court of Appeal decisions that have supported this

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Speaker 2: cohort of families. So we're here out of needs must

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Speaker 2: you know, we just could not get I mean, when

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Speaker 2: the when the Crown can tell us no one's above

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Speaker 2: the layle of law and yet them public servants can

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Speaker 2: just ignore Court of appealed decisions in which they did

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Speaker 2: in Atkinson, Spencer and Chamberlain. Then this, this is the result.

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Speaker 2: This is the only way we're going to get their attention.

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Speaker 1: Jane, thanks for your time, mate, best of like with

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Speaker 1: everything that's Jane Carrigan, independent disability advocate.

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