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Submission: NDIS Review of Participant Safeguarding

This is a submission responding to the NDIS Review Secretariat, Participant Safeguarding Review.

Submission: Gender Equality Discussion Paper

This is a submission responding to the Australian Government’s National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality discussion paper.

Submission: Redress Matters to Address

This is a submission responding to the Joint Standing Committee on Implementation of the National Redress Scheme.

Submission: Transport Standards review

This is a submission responding to the 2022 Review of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002.

Submission: Disability Inclusion Regulation review

This is a submission responding to the Disability Inclusion Regulation review.

Submission: Safeguarding the future

This is a submission responding to the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Frameworks Issues Paper.

Endorsement: Consultation impact of acoustic alert systems on electric vehicles

PWDA endorses this Blind Citizens Australia submission in response to the call to mandate Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems (AVAS) for new electric, hydrogen fuel cell and hybrid vehicles in Australia.

A just voice for generations

This 2023 National Reconciliation Week (27 May to 3 June) People with Disability Australia (PWDA) joins the theme, Be a Voice for Generations, in honour of the efforts of advocates and activists over time who have laboured for justice in Australia.

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Ableism and disablism

Ableism and disablism both refer to types of disability discrimination. The nuance between the two words are important for acknowledging, detecting, and dismantling the types of barriers people with disability encounter.

Submission: Administrative Review Reform Issues Paper

A submission from People with Disability Australia in response to the call for views on the development of a new federal administrative review body