The Green Party supports access to democracy as well as the need to protect those with valid reasons to be exempt from mask requirements, including people with disabilities. However, this needs to be done safely in the context of a robust system of protections to reduce the spread of the virus through our communities, especially those already facing considerable inequalities as we come into the winter period—this includes, for example, ventilation standards for all buildings to improve indoor air quality, and particularly within our schools as well. There are a number of parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles, mums and dads all around the House as well, and I've certainly noticed—and I'm sure other people have as well—how we'll put that extra pressure on our schools, and on our teachers and principals and school staff as well, to not only handle that workload of being teachers but also be, by circumstance, de facto healthcare workers as well. I think it's really important when we do this stuff that we always have those things in mind.