People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is pleased to comment to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on the Application for Temporary Exemption by the Australasian Railway Association (ARA). PWDA believes that a monitoring and reporting mechanism is essential for any…
Author: People with Disability Australia (page 30)
Submission To Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sexual Abuse Issues Paper 8: Experiences Of Police And Prosecution Responses
June 2015 PWDA have been funded as a Royal Commission Community-Based Support Service by the Department of Social Services to provide individual advocacy to people with disability who are affected by the Royal Commission. As part of this process, we…
Submission To The NSW Government’s Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme Discussion Paper
June 2015 PWDA has some serious concerns about the impact of the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme on people with disability, especially women. People with disability experience much higher levels of domestic violence than people without disability. According to data this…
Submission From More Than 30 Leading Australian Academics Regarding Violence Data, Coordinated By PWDA And To The Senate Inquiry Into Violence, Abuse And Neglect Against People With Disability In Institutional And Residential Settings
Data on the violence, abuse and neglect experienced by people with disability in Australia is limited in scope and by methodology of collection. This submission enumerates those limitations and provides advice for improved data collection and quality on this important…
Submission To The National Children’s Commissioner’s Examination Of Domestic Violence And Children
Better understanding of the prevalence and incidence of violence, abuse and neglect is urgently needed to address the very high levels of violence experienced by this cohort and fulfil the needs of government, policy makers, researchers, Disabled Peoples Organisations, and…
Review Of The Disability (Access To Premises – Building) Standards 2010
The primary focus of PWDA’s submission is to voice the lived experience of people with disability and assess whether the Premise Standards and their implementation has delivered dignified, equitable, cost effective, consistent and reasonably achievable access to buildings, facilities and…
Proposal For A National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality And Safeguarding Framework – Joint Submission With Women With Disabilities Australia
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Quality and Safeguarding Framework (‘the Q&S Framework’) must be embedded in a human rights framework. This submission lists the appropriate governance instruments under international, Commonwealth and state law. This submission elaborates in detail how…
Submission To The Third Action Plan Of The National Framework For Protecting Australia’s Children
The National Framework and the Consultation Paper for the Third Plan both acknowledge parents and children with disability as priority groups. This is important, reflecting the facts that children with disability are overrepresented in the out of home care system,…
Outrageous decision on disability wages
4 May 2015 A decision by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to grant the Australian Government a further four month exemption to allow Australian Disability Enterprises (ADEs) to continue to pay workers under the discriminatory Business Services Wage Assessment…
Snapshot a wake-up call on affordable, accessible housing
30 April 2015 The 2015 Rental Affordability Snapshot, released today by Anglicare Australia confirms that the doors to affordable, accessible housing are closed for people with disability. According to the Snapshot, less than two per-cent of Australian rental properties are…