Disability Rights Links
Disability Rights
Disability Rights Links
Last updated 30 June 2016
Contents
- About this page
- Get help: Helplines; Advocacy organisations; Legal advice
- Disability organisations : Peak / major organisations
- Australian Government bodies
- Other resources
About this page
This website contains links to other websites that are external to the Australian Human Rights Commission. The Commission takes reasonable care in linking to websites but has no direct control over the content of the linked sites, or changes that may occur to their content. These links do not constitute an endorsement or a recommendation of any material on the sites or any services or products they offer.
Get Help
All Emergencies - Ambulance - Fire - Police: Dial - '000'
Australian Human Rights Commission - make a complaint: 1300 656 419 or 02 9284 9888
National Disability Abuse and Neglect hotline: 1800 880 052
Lifeline Australia: 13 11 14
Carers Australia
National Relay Service: 1300 555 727 (Speak and Listen)
Translating and Interpreting Service: 131 450
Advocacy Organisations:
- ACT Disability, Aged and Carer Advocacy Service
- NSW:
- NT: Disability Advocacy Service, Alice Springs
- Queensland Aged and Disability Advocacy
- Disability Advocacy and Complaints Service of South Australia Inc.
- Advocacy Tasmania Inc.
- VIC:
- Disability Advocacy and Information Service (Wodonga)
- Disability Advocacy Victoria
- Youth Disability Advocacy Service (For people aged 12-25)
- WA:
Legal Advice:
- ACT: Canberra Community Law
- NSW:
- NT: Darwin Community Legal Service
- QLD:
- Basic Rights Queensland (Anywhere South of Mackay)
- Disability Discrimination Legal Service (Far North QLD)
- Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (Brisbane)
- Disability Law Project (Toowoomba region)
- SA: Disability Discrimination Legal Service
- Tasmania:
- VIC:
- WA:
Disability Organisations
Australian Cross Disability Alliance organisations
In 2015, the Australian Government announced the creation of a new Australian Cross Disability Alliance comprising five peak bodies:
- Children with Disability Australia
- First Peoples Disability Network Australia
- National Ethnic Disability Alliance
- People with Disability Australia
- Women with Disabilities Australia
Other disability peak bodies
- Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
- Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
- Blind Citizens Australia
- Brain Injury Australia
- Council on the Ageing
- Deaf Australia
- Deafness Forum of Australia
- Deafblind organisations
- Inclusion Australia (formerly National Council on Intellectual Disability)
- Mental Health Australia
- National Disability Services
- Physical Disability Australia
- Spinal Cord Injuries Australia
Other related organisations
- Association of Consultants in Access
- Media Access Australia
- Australian Network on Disability
- Diversity Council Australia
Australian Government bodies
Federal Government
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
- Department of Social Services disability page
- National Mental Health Commission
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare disability page
- Australian Bureau of Statistics: Disability statistics
- Australian Building Codes Board
- Australian Local Government Association
State and Territory anti-discrimination & equal opportunity agencies
- ACT Human Rights Commission
- Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
- Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commission
- Anti-Discrimination Commission of Queensland
- Equal Opportunity Commission of South Australia
- Office of the Anti-Discrimination Commission (Tasmania)
- Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
- Equal Opportunity Commission Western Australia
State and Territory disability agencies
- Disability ACT
- NSW Ageing Disability and Home Care
- Northern Territory Office of Disability
- Disability Services Queensland
- South Australia: Disability SA and Disability Services
- Tasmania: Disability and Community Services
- Victoria: Department of Health & Human Services disability page
- WA: Disability Services Commission
Disability advisory bodies
- Disability Council NSW
- NT: Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability Reform
- Queensland disability advisory councils
- Tasmania: Premier's Disability Advisory Committee
- Victorian Disability Advisory Council Western Australia: Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability
Other resources
- Educational resources for consumers who have a disability — July 2016
- Competition and consumer law for businesses supplying consumers who have a disability — July 2016
- What are your rights if your child with a disability is denied a school place? - article in The Conversation 29 January 2016 by Karen O'Connell, lecturer UTS
- Sharing and Monitoring Disability Information - Australian Network on Disability - 2016
- Is ageing our biggest threat? YourLifeChoices - 30 June 2016
