Disability Reform Roadmap for 2024 and 2025

Disability reform roadmapAll governments are committed to progressing key disability reforms and working with people with disability to make Australia more inclusive, accessible and safe for people with disability.The Roadmap highlights the key actions all governments will take in 2024 and 2025 to build the foundations and deliver on commitments for the disability and National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) reform agenda.
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Tags: co-delivery in partnership, co-design with people with disability, Disability Reform Roadmap, Disability Royal Commission, National Disability Insurance Scheme

The Disability Royal Commission recommendations on Housing and homelessness

Disability Royal Commission recommendations on Housing and homelessness
Disability Advocacy Network Australia, Inclusion Australia, and People with Disability Australia, called on the Disability Royal Commission to ensure recommendations would “break the policy inertia that has allowed these unacceptable conditions to continue for too long”.

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End violence against disabled people

End violence against disabled peopleEveryone deserves to live in a world free from violence, yet people with disability face much higher rates of violence, harassment and abuse across all aspects of their lives. You are invited to take action and send a message to the Australian Government BEFORE the Disability Royal Commission hands down its final report on September 29, 2023

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Tags: action to end the violence now, Disability Royal Commission, End violence against disabled people, Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese