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Disability Rights4 April 2024Webpage
Audrey O'Connor
Hear IncludeAbility Ambassador Audrey O’Connor’s thoughts on working with disability, her career journey and why meaningful employment matters to her. -
Disability Rights4 April 2024Webpage
Dinesh Palipana
Discover how IncludeAbility Ambassador Dinesh Palipana always dreamed of being a doctor and how it’s enabled him to be an advocate for people with disabilities. -
Disability Rights4 April 2024Webpage
Heidi La Paglia
Learn about IncludeAbility Ambassador Heidi La Paglia, an experienced researcher and advocate specialising in intersectional disability and neuro-inclusion. -
Disability Rights4 April 2024Webpage
Jake Fing
Hear IncludeAbility Ambassador Jake Fing experience of Bipolar Type 2, and how meaningful employment has helped him feel belonging within a community. -
Disability Rights4 April 2024Webpage
Jane Spring
Learn about IncludeAbility Ambassador Jane Spring becoming T10 paraplegic and her journey to meaningful employment, enabling her to develop and grow her skills. -
Disability Rights15 February 2024Webpage
IncludeAbility Ambassadors
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Disability Rights29 June 2015Publication
Guidelines for Providers of Insurance and Superannuation
The Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (the "DDA") aims, as far as possible, to promote the rights of people with a disability to participate equally in all areas of life. It does this by making it unlawful to discriminate against a person with a disability, subject to a number of exceptions intended to balance the rights of people with disabilities with those of other persons. The areas where discrimination is unlawful include insurance and superannuation. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
GUIDE DOG OWNERS AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION
I have been concerned for some time of legislation which is being passed without any consultation whatsoever with our organisation. As some people may remember, I was the one that fought hard and succeeded in getting legislation passed for dog guides to go into any place and on all forms of public transport. This legislation was passed in 1957 but now it has been made more or less obsolete as dog guides have to compete with companion dogs, hearing dogs, assistance dogs and puppies being walked by people rearing them for future dog guides. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
Submission on Australian ratificaton of Disability Convention
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) makes this submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties in its Inquiry into he Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. -
Disability Rights7 June 2024Webpage
Bringing a disability lens to the COVID-19 health policy response
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice7 June 2024Webpage
Learning from crisis
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
How were you affected by COVID measures?
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Race Discrimination7 June 2024Webpage
Racial Equality in the Time of Coronavirus: 2020 Kep Enderby Lecture
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
Time for review on COVID-19 border and quarantine restrictions
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
Enhancing human rights in a post-COVID world
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
Loss of freedoms and rights has harmed us
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
Human Rights in the time of Covid
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Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Speeches: DON'T JUDGE WHAT I CAN DO BY WHAT YOU THINK I CAN'T
(These are speaking notes used by the Commissioner at a series of events in all Australian capitals as well as Alice Springs through March 2003. Speeches as delivered included acknowledgement of State and Territory anti-discrimination colleauges co-hosting forums in each case as well as guests from the disability community including those presenting personal accounts of use of the DDA.) -
Commission – General7 June 2024Media Release
Hundreds of advocates support push for Australian Human Rights Act
More than 700 human rights advocates from across Australia, including more than 60 eminent experts, have called on the Federal Government to introduce a Human Rights Act at a major national conference in Sydney today. Buoyed by last week’s Parliamentary Joint Committee On Human Rights recommendations, delegates at the two-day Free + Equal Human Rights Conference pledged their support for the ... -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Inquiry report
Summary and recommendations Introduction Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport Focus on response times Consumer experiences Private arrangements outside booking systems Setting and monitoring of performance standards Proportions of accessible taxis in fleets Proportion of WATs to WAT users Other factors affecting adequacy of service Relationship of fleet proportions to service outcomes Regional WAT services and community transport Reasons for low proportions of accessible vehicles More active enforcement Enforcement approaches alone may not be effective Comparison with funding o