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…
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