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Disability Rights
1 August 2025Media ReleaseCommission welcomes review of Disability Discrimination Act
The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) says simplifying and modernising Australia’s Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) will better protect the rights of people with disability. -
Disability Rights
4 March 2025Media Release
Commissioners slam NSW and WA govts over ‘shameful’ inaction on accessible homes
Australia’s Disability and Age Discrimination Commissioners have called out the governments of NSW and Western Australia for failing older people and people with disability by not requiring new homes in their jurisdictions to meet the minimum national accessibility standards in the National Construction Code (NCC). -
Disability Rights
1 August 2025Webpage
Disability Discrimination Act review
This page contains relevant information about the 2025 review of Australia's Disability Discrimination Act. -
Disability Rights
5 May 2025Webpage
Chapter 2 | How to provide equal access to digital goods and services
Contents Introduction Business Benefits Implementing a strategic approach to providing equal access Accessibility in the development cycle Skills development Accessibility in the procurement process Accessibility and risk management Introduction This Chapter provides further information and adds consideration such as the business case for addressing digital accessibility and the need to… -
Disability Rights
27 February 2023News story
Pilot program for young people with intellectual disability
Discover the pilot program for young people with intellectual disabilities. -
Disability Rights
3 May 2024Webpage
Employment for people with disability in Australia
Explore statistics on disability employment and education in Australia and the facts about disability discrimination. -
Disability Rights
30 April 2024Webpage
Disability and employment in Australia
Learn the facts about education, employment and disability discrimination in Australia. -
Disability Rights
6 October 2020Submission
People with Disability and Employment (2020)
1. Introduction The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) welcomes the opportunity to provide this submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (the Royal Commission). The Royal Commission provides an important opportunity to prevent and redress violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability… -
Disability Rights
3 December 2020Opinion piece
Being acknowledged is the first step to being included
When I started my career as a young lawyer, I made a decision to tell people upfront that I used a wheelchair. On the occasions when I didn't, people often didn’t realise that I was the lawyer who they had spoken to on the phone. They would assume I was attending a meeting for work experience, or address their questions to my colleague instead of me. This continued even as my career… -
Disability Rights
31 July 2024Media Release
Commissioner urges stronger government commitment to Disability Royal Commission findings
Disability Discrimination Commissioner Rosemary Kayess has urged the Federal Government to make a stronger commitment to the Disability Royal Commission’s recommendations, if the vision for a more inclusive Australia is to ever be achieved. -
Disability Rights
18 December 2023News story
Webinar: Lessons from disability employment project IncludeAbility
The IncludeAbility pilot programs How can we reimagine disability employment in Australia, to the benefit of individuals, organisations, and the wider community? Watch this webinar, delivered in November 2023, to learn about the Australian Human Rights Commission’s successful IncludeAbility disability employment project, and how the insights gained can pave the way for a better future…