25 November 2014 National Peak Disability Consumer and Advocacy Organisations applaud the Senate vote to block the passing of the Business Services Wage Assessment Tool (BSWAT) Payment Scheme Bill 2014. In blocking the Bill, the Senate has shown support for…
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Urgent Call for National Inquiry: End violence against people with disability in institutions
25 November 2014 People with Disability Australia (PWDA) and Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) are outraged at the events that were portrayed in last night’s ABC 4 Corners program, ABC 4 Corners program, In Our Care. This program exposes the deliberate cover-up of…
Senate Community Affairs Committee Inquiry Into Out Of Home Care
Historically, children and young people with disability are among the most likely in our community to be institutionalised, often through child protection systems. Unlike most other children and young people in out of home care, children and young people with…
Considerations Of The 4th And 5th Reports Of Australia By The Committee To The Convention Against Torture
October 2014 People with disability in Australia are frequently subject to treatment that may constitute torture, or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (ill-treatment), including persistent and severe violence and abuse, forced or coerced non-therapeutic sterilisation, long-term neglect of…
Senate Standing Committee On Finance And Public Administration ‘Inquiry Into Domestic Violence In Australia’ – (Australian Cross Disability Alliance)
September 2014 Whilst there are numerous instances where men and boys with disability are subjected to and experience violence, including domestic/family violence, it is clearly a gendered issue that disproportionately affects women and girls with disability. In this context, this…
NSW Legislative Assembly Public Accounts Committee Inquiry Into Tenancy Management In Social Housing
August 2014 PWDA welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the NSW Legislative Assembly Public Accounts Committee Inquiry into Tenancy Management in Social Housing, with particular reference to the following terms of reference: the cost effectiveness of current tenancy management…
Submission To The Consultation On The Interim Report On Welfare Reform
August 2014 Article 28 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) obliges the Australian Government to safeguard and promote the realisation of these rights. People with disability are entitled to appropriate levels of social protection…
Senate Standing Committee On Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry Into The Extent Of Income Inequality In Australia
August 2014 PWDA welcomes the 2014-15 federal budget commitment to deliver the designated funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) with no changes to the roll out at this stage. It is vital that the NDIS is implemented in…
People With Disability Australia (PWDA) Disability Employment Services (DES) Consumer Engagement Project
August 2014 PWDA believes more work should be done by government, in partnership with business, to ensure people with disability have opportunities for sustainable employment in Australia. While the DES is an important mechanism to place and train people with…
Disability advocates call on Senate to stop Bill stripping wages from workers with intellectual disability
25 August 2014 Today, four national peak disability groups will join with the AED Legal Centre and more than 30 community disability organisations to launch an open letter calling on politicians from all parties to vote against a bill to extinguish the…