10. Work to eliminate ableism. These recommendations also reflect the recommendations made by Women with Disabilities to the Australian government. c. Develop systems to ensure that tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people can fully participate in political processes on an equal basis with others. a. Recognise ableism and intersecting forms of inequality and discrimination as the drivers of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. d. Develop systems to ensure that tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people can fully participate in leisure and cultural activities with others of their choice. b. Strongly reinforce that segregation of people with disability is discrimination and facilitates violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. e. Develop processes to support decisionmaking, rather than substitute it, if people are unable to make autonomous decisions. c. Examine how ableism and intersecting forms of inequality and discrimination operate within the country’s legal, policy and practice frameworks and through community attitudes, and how they underpin violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. f. d. Address the root causes of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation and facilitate large scale responses and social transformation. e. Identify ableism as a driver of violence against women and girls with disability. 11. Address tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people’s lack of access to the determinants of health and wellbeing. This recommendation has a range of subrecommendations. a. Strengthen legislation and policies in relation to reasonable accommodation and accessibility. b. Address discrimination in hiring practices and changing societal knowledge about, and attitudes to, disabled people. Shift decision-making about disabilityrelated issues to within the disability community, and provide resources to build capability and capacity within that community. g. Resource and support whānau and families of tāngata whaikaha Māori to support their disabled family member(s). 12. Enhance disabled people’s access to justice. a. Include the justice sector and police, in consultation with tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people, in all upskilling, policy development and other processes to develop safe, intersectional police and justice sector responses to violence and abuse. b. Help to change attitudes and develop justice sector understanding of legal capacity, supported decision-making versus substituted decision-making and tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people’s right to be recognised as competent, legitimate witnesses. Acting now for a violence and abuse free future 15