Disability Rights
Guidelines for the targeted recruitment of people with disability (2022)
The Guidelines provide information about designing and implementing targeted recruitment strategies for people with disability.
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Building bridges over the digital divide (2001)
This review has been prepared to identify developments in addressing the 'digital divide' experienced by older Australians and people with disabilities since the release of the Commission's report Accessibility of electronic commerce
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Accessibility of electronic commerce and new service and information technologies for older Australians and people with a disability
The Commission has sought in the conduct of this reference and in its approach to this report to take advantage of the potential of new technologies for achieving improved effectiveness, efficiency and accessibility of information and service delivery which this report and previous papers for this...
Disability Rights
The Sterilisation of Girls and Young Women in Australia
The legal framework regulating sterilisation of children in Australia was set out by the High Court in Marion's Case in 1992
Disability Rights
Reflections - first 5 years of the Disability Discrimination Act
As I reach the end of my appointment as the first Disability Discrimination Commissioner, and in the light of proposed structural and funding changes to the Commission, I am drawn to reflect upon the theory and practice, challenges and developments, lessons and achievements, of the first five years...
Disability Rights
The Overlooked Consumers – 20% of the Australian Population with Disabilities and Older People
Every day, one in five Australians experiences difficulties or frustrations in performing everyday tasks with everyday things, such as consumer electronics and appliances. As technology develops, an increasing proportion of products are inaccessible to people with a range of different disabilities...
Disability Rights
Human Rights and Mental Illness: Victoria
The terms of the original National Inquiry covered all aspects of the human rights of people affected by mental illness, including human rights in relation to institutional and non-institutional care and treatment.
Disability Rights
Report of the National Inquiry into the Human rights of People with Mental Illness
The Report of the National Inquiry into the Human Rights of People with Mental Illness was tabled in Parliament and publicly released on 20 October 1993 and found that people affected by mental illness are among the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in our community and that they suffer from...
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