TONI SEVERIN (ACT): I rise on behalf of the ACT Party to support the Accident Compensation (Maternal Birth Injury and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. It's great that ACC will acknowledge these birth injuries, in common with a lot of other injuries that occur, however they haven't been recognised because of us being women. There's estimated to be around 17,000 to 18,000 women that suffer with these injuries. As has been spoken about before, 85 percent of women incur injuries during birth, but it's not just injuries that occur; it is also the emotional side of these injuries that can have a lasting impact as well on women. With these emotional injuries, they also impact their loved ones that are there to support them, because the husbands, partners, aren't able to support them because of the injuries, but they can help the babies, which is great.