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Current e-Petitions for the Legislative Council

e-Petitions Conditions of Use

The petitions process is governed by the Temporary Orders adopted by the Legislative Council of Western Australia. These Temporary Orders enable the Parliament of Western Australia to accept electronic petitioning (“e-Petitions”).

By electing to join an e-Petition, you acknowledge that you meet the conditions detailed below.

  1. You meet the eligibility requirement specified for the e-Petition. This means that you fall into one of the three broad groups of petitioners:
    1. West Australian residents;
    2. West Australian citizens; or
    3. West Australian electors in a nominated electorate.
      The eligibility requirement for each e-Petition is identified on the web site.
  2. You have not already joined the e-Petition.
  • The name, address and email address details provided are your true details.
    Otherwise, you are entering the name, address and email address details of someone else because they are physically incapable of entering their details and:
  • have given you express permission to act on their behalf to record their details for the purposes of joining the e-Petition (provided that the authority to act on their behalf is not revoked at the time of joining the e-Petition); and
  • to the best of your knowledge the details that you enter are true and correct.
  • By electing to join an e-Petition, you acknowledge that your name, address and email address will be published on the physical tabled paper of the e-Petition retained by the Legislative Council. This personal information will not be viewable in any form on the web site, however, the hard copy of the tabled paper of the e-Petition containing this information may be obtained from the Clerk of the Legislative Council.

    Your name, address and email address details will not be added to a mailing list by the Legislative Council. All electronic personal data relating to the posting and joining of an e-petition will be disposed of within six months of the e-petition being printed and presented to the Legislative Council. Further information on the collection and storage of personal information is available in our Privacy Statement

    IMPORTANT: Failing to comply with these Conditions of Use may amount to a contempt of Parliament. Actions that are considered to be in contempt of Parliament include:

    • presenting a forged or falsified document to the House or a committee;
    • submitting a petition containing false, scandalous or groundless allegations; or
    • inducing a person to sign a petition by fraud and misleading the House.

    You could be fined for committing a contempt of Parliament, or even imprisoned if you fail to pay such a fine.

    Sorry this e-Petition status is "Closed". You may not sign the petiton at this time.

    Sign Air conditioning at Roebourne Regional Prison

    To the President and Members of the Legislative Council:

    call upon the Legislative Council of Western Australia to support the installation of air conditioning in all the cells at the Roebourne Regional Prison in North-Western Australia before the 2022-23 summer.
    The region regularly experiences temperatures of 40 degrees or more. In January 2022, the prison experienced 50.5 degrees, which was its hottest day on record.
    Without air conditioning, the cells are unbearably hot especially at night. Inmates can endure long lockdowns of up to 12 hours in their stifling cells. Former inmates have described Roebourne as 'inhumane', 'torturous' 'haunting' and 'horrific'.
    The unbearable heat in Roebourne Regional Prison has been the subject of inquiries and articles for two decades. It was addressed extensively in a 2020 Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services report. It has been commented on by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and is the subject numerous newspaper articles.
    About 80 percent of inmates are Aboriginal people. Many have physical ailments that are exacerbated by the stifling, relentless heat. Between 2010 and 2016 alone, there were 82 cases of heat-related illness reported to the prison’s health centre.
    There is a real danger that the heat could lead to an inmate’s death. Furthermore, the conditions do not meet the recommendations of the 1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
    We call on the Legislative Council to encourage the WA Government to prioritise the installation of air conditioning in every cell at Roebourne Regional Prison. We ask that the Government treat this as a matter of urgency.

    And your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray.

    Sorry this e-Petition status is "Closed". You may not sign the petition at this time.