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Submission to the Productivity Commission on Disability Care and Support
Published 2010-01-01The authors of this submission welcome: • the proposal for a scheme to provide long term care and support on an entitlement basis, • many of the accompanying features of the approach outlined, including the no fault basis ...Open AccessOther -
Eligibility, the ICF and the UN Convention: Australian perspectives
Published 2010-04-01The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in Australia, acts as a philosophical and moral statement and framework guiding integrated and strategic policy across the nation. Broad policy agreement has ...Open AccessArticle -
Submission to the Productivity Commission - National Disability Long term Care and Support Scheme
Published 2010-08-01This submission encourages and accepts the premises of a National Disability Long‐term Care and Support Scheme (the National Disability Scheme): • No fault • Entitlement based • Support provided in accordance with need for ...Open AccessOther -
Productivity Commission Inquiry into a National Disability Support Scheme "Treat disability related to injury the same as other disabilities”
Published 2011-05-01The draft report Disability Care and Support contains an exciting vision of improved disability support for all people with disabilities, with provision as an entitlement to every Australian based on their need for support. ...Open AccessOther -
Submission to the Productivity Commission on Disability Care and Support 11 May 2011
Published 2011-05-01The authors of this submission welcome the Productivity Commission (PC) Draft Report and many of the key features of the proposed NDIS including: • the proposal for a scheme to provide long term care and support on an ...Open AccessOther -
Left Behind 2011: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Disabilities, 2001-2009
Published 2011-06-01Adolescents and young adults with disabilities are at heightened risk of social exclusion. Exclusion leads to poor outcomes in adulthood which in turn affects individuals’ health and wellbeing and that of their families ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
The Well-being of Children with Disabilities in the Asia Pacific Region: Analysis of UNICEF MICS 3 Survey Data from Bangladesh, Lao PDR, Mongolia and Thailand
Published 2012-01-01In this report we have used data from the third round of UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted 2005-8 to describe the relative well-being of disabled and non-disabled children in four South Asian/Pacific ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
SUBMISSION ON THE NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME BILL 2012 TO THE SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES ON COMMUNITY AFFAIRS JANUARY 2013
Published 2013-01-01The NDIS is an important and needed reform to Australia’s disability system. There is much of merit in the NDIS Bill. Its implementation poses some challenges, to ensure a clear, sustainable and rights-based system, resulting ...Open AccessOther -
LEFT BEHIND: 2013 MONITORING THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF YOUNG AUSTRALIANS WITH SELF-REPORTED LONG TERM HEALTH CONDITIONS, IMPAIRMENTS OR DISABILITIES 2001 - 2011
Published 2013-02-01Disabled Australian adolescents and young adults are more likely to experience social exclusion than their non-disabled peers. The gap between the two actually widened between 2001 and 2011. Social exclusion in adolescence ...Open AccessOther -
Left Behind 2013: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Self Reported Long Term Health Conditions, Impairments or Disabilities 2001-2011
Published 2013-02-01This report maps the extent of social inclusion or exclusion of young disabled Australians, aged between 15 and 29, over the years 2001 to 2011. It found that although the social inclusion of young disabled Australians ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Disability Transitions Across the Life Course: Preliminary Data from Australia
Published 2013-02-01The aim of this working paper is to present preliminary analyses of longitudinal data from Australia that addresses various aspects of the dynamic nature of disability over time. Disability research is dominated by ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
LEFT BEHIND: MONITORING THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF YOUNG AUSTRALIANS WITH SELF- REPORTED LONG TERM HEALTH CONDITIONS, IMPAIRMENTS OR DISABILITIES 2001 - 2009
Published 2013-04-10Adolescents and young adults with disabilities are at heightened risk of social exclusion. Exclusion leads to poor outcomes in adulthood which in turn affects individuals’ health and wellbeing and that of their families ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Transition to Retirement
Published 2013-06-01This Policy Bulletin describes the implementation and evaluation of the Transition to Retirement (TTR) Program that was examined in a three-year collaborative program of applied research involving university researchers ...Open AccessOther -
Left Behind 2014: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Self Reported Long Term Health Conditions, Impairments or Disabilities 2001-2012
Published 2014-03-01The first Technical Report reporting on the time period 2001-2009, reported that disabled Australian adolescents and young adults were more likely to experience social exclusion than their non-disabled peers, and that the ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Monitoring Manual and Menu (MM+M) for CBR and other Community-Based Disability Inclusive Development Programs - Manual
Published 2014-04-01Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is a valued community development approach but there is a lack of evidence of its efficacy (World Report on Disability 2011; and more recently confirmed in the Global Disability Action ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Monitoring Manual and Menu (MM+M) for CBR and other Community-Based Disability Inclusive Development Programs - Menu
Published 2014-04-01Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is a valued community development approach but there is a lack of evidence of its efficacy (World Report on Disability 2011; and more recently confirmed in the Global Disability Action ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Left Behind 2014: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Self-Reported Long Term Health Conditions, Impairments or Disabilities 2001-2012
Published 2014-06-01This Policy Bulletin is the second in an annual series reporting on the social inclusion/ exclusion of young Australians (aged between 15 and 29) with self-reported long term health conditions, impairments or disabilities. ...Open AccessOther -
Estimated Prevalence and Living Circumstances of Parents with Intellectual Disability In Australia from Selected National Surveys
Published 2014-07-01Analysis of SDAC 2009 data identified an estimated 0.41% of Australian parents had intellectual disability. This equates to an estimated 17,000 parents with intellectual disability residing in private dwellings in Australia. ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Cross Sector Service Coordination for People with High and Complex Needs: Harnessing Existing Evidence and Knowledge
Published 2014-08-01People with high and complex needs will generally need an array of supports to enable social and economic participation as envisaged by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As participants, these people will ...Open AccessOther -
Technical Report 2, 2014: The Number and Characteristics of Parents with Intellectual Disability from Centrelink Income Support Administrative Data
Published 2014-10-01This report reports the situation of parents with intellectual disability compared to parents with other disabilities and non-disabled parents in a national administrative data set. Compared with other Australian parents, ...Open AccessReport, Technical