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Importance of Inclusive Education

Every child and young person in Australia has the right to access an inclusive education setting, and to be welcomed and valued. This means that students with…

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Improving communications with people with cognitive disability

1-minute read People who live with cognitive disabilities have a right to be listened to, effectively heard, and spoken with as adults. It is a human right no…

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My Disability, My Choice (RA) Raising Awareness

2-minute read Disability Rights are Human Rights Disability rights are human rights and belong to each of us simply because we are human.

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New NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissioner

A new NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissioner will begin next year. Tracy Mackey will start her role in January 2022, for a 3-year appointment.

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Reasonable accommodation in the workplace

Accommodation or adjustments in the workplace mean employers have made changes or modifications to a job, workplace, or work practices to enable an employee wi…

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Royal Commission - Measures taken by employers and regulators to respond to the systemic barriers to open employment for people with disability

Public hearing 19 continues the Royal Commission’s inquiries into the systemic barriers to open employment that started with Public hearing 9. Public hearing 9…

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Royal Commission looks at the human rights of people with disability and making the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities a reality in Australian law, policies and practice

The Disability Royal Commission will look at human rights and how the rights of people with disabilities found in the Convention on Rights of People with Disab…