Safeguards are laws, rules and programs that are meant to protect our right to live free from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. People with disability need those safeguards to work well and actually make us safer. In this submission to…
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Barriers to people with autism are barriers to us all: Submission to the Select Committee on Autism
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is pleased to make this submission to the Select Committee on Autism’s Inquiry into the Services, Support and Life Outcomes for People with autism in Australia and the associated need for a National Autism Strategy.…
#EndSegregation for people with disability
PWDA wants the Disability Royal Commission to help stop the practice of segregating people with disability from the community. People with Disability Australia is among over 60 organisations and more than 290 people to urge the Disability Royal Commission to…
A National Disability Strategy Outcomes Framework Submission
PWDA has lifted its voice, urging the Australian Government to set measurable targets for its new National Disability Strategy (NDS) for the coming decade. On behalf of our members, we wrote to Department of Social Services last Friday, 18 December…
Submission to Senate Inquiry into the Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Continuation of Cashless Welfare) Bill 2020
PWDA has long raised concerns about the Cashless Debit Card, and have opposed all forms of compulsory income management. Our concerns with any Bill before the Parliament to introduce compulsory income management flows from: · The inadequate research and evaluation of…
Submission in response to National Disability Strategy Position Paper: Stage 2 consultations
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) welcomes the opportunity to provide this submission to the Australian Government’s Stage 2 Consultations for the National Disability Strategy. You can access the full submission in [PDF] or [Word].
No More Group Homes
We have the right to live independently in our communities In June this year, PWDA made a submission to the Disability Royal Commission, “Realising Our Right to Live Independently in the Community”. The submission highlighted the role of group homes,…
Submission to the Review of the NSW Boarding Houses Act 2012
PWDA is pleased to make this submission to the Department of Customer Service (Better Regulation Division) Review of the Boarding Houses Act 2012. People with disability have a right to choose where, and with whom they live, and should have…
Submission to Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into the impact of changes to service delivery models on the administration and running of Government programs
PWDA has significant concerns about several aspects of recent service delivery models, especially those that relate to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and Agency (NDIA) and to Centrelink in the Human Services portfolio. As part of our work with…
Submission on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Streamlined Governance) Bill 2019
PWDA expressed its opposition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Streamlined Governance) Bill 2019, as we had concerns over the following: the potential to erode the equal partnership principle that defines the relationship between the Commonwealth and the States and…